Remembering the Amazing Carol Urner

Carol Urner, former WILPF US Disarm Committee co-chair.

by Ellen Thomas 
Co-chair, DISARM/End Wars Issue Committee

April 2023

WILPF friends, we have sad news.

I spoke to Kirby Urner on March 7th and learned that his mom, Carol Urner, passed on January 30th.  
 
I've missed Carol enormously since she retired as WILPF US Disarm Committee Co-Chair a few years ago. She brought me into WILPF in 2004, and was a wonderful mentor and companion. It was a special gift to have been able to travel extensively with her, and to meet the wonderful WILPF members who welcomed us along the way.

I hope we can do something really special to honor this remarkable woman in the next Peace & Freedom issue and elsewhere. Please let me know if you have any thoughts, memories, images, or videos you would like to share. Ellen Thomas et@prop1.org

Here is a slideshow of five photos of Carol we’ve gathered so far.

Here is a link to the Nuclear-Free Future tour that Carol and I took around the country in 2016, which includes resources, and reports/photos from each stop.

Here are links Kirby has sent – 

1. A Journal-embedded YouTube from a night at Multnomah Meeting featuring Carol telling stories from her life.
2. Kirby’s blog.

We hope you will join us on Wednesday, April 19 at 7:45 pm EDT, to watch the new documentary film, The Atom: A Love Affair, which we are showing in honor of Carol Urner. You can register for the event here.