March 15, 2019

Scholarships awarded from international mission work fund

Recipients of scholarships for 2018 from the Brooke Nicole Lahr Memorial Fund for International Mission Work pose on March 4 in the Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Catholic Center in Indianapolis. They are, from left, front row, Regan Happe, Dakota Dorsett, Elizabeth Poynton, Isabelle de Castro, Colleen Scheer and Ella Johnson. Back row, Katelynn Hexamer, left, Sally Jones, fourth from left, and Nicholas O’Connor, third from right. Also pictured, in the back row, Colleen Lahr, second from left, Brook Lahr’s mother, Mike Sexton, third from left, Brook’s uncle, Mark Lahr, second from right, Brook’s father, and Father Michael O’Mara, pastor of St. Gabriel the Archangel Parish in Indianapolis. (Photo by Sean Gallagher)

Recipients of scholarships for 2018 from the Brooke Nicole Lahr Memorial Fund for International Mission Work pose on March 4 in the Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Catholic Center in Indianapolis. They are, from left, front row, Regan Happe, Dakota Dorsett, Elizabeth Poynton, Isabelle de Castro, Colleen Scheer and Ella Johnson. Back row, Katelynn Hexamer, left, Sally Jones, fourth from left, and Nicholas O’Connor, third from right. Also pictured, in the back row, Colleen Lahr, second from left, Brook Lahr’s mother, Mike Sexton, third from left, Brook’s uncle, Mark Lahr, second from right, Brook’s father, and Father Michael O’Mara, pastor of St. Gabriel the Archangel Parish in Indianapolis. (Photo by Sean Gallagher)

Criterion staff report

Recipients of this year’s scholarships from the Brooke Nicole Lahr Memorial Fund for International Mission Work were honored on March 4 at the Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Catholic Center in Indianapolis.

The youths and young adult recipients from across central Indiana received scholarships to fund international mission trips this year through a fund managed by the archdiocesan Catholic Community Foundation.

It was established in 2013 in memory of Brooke Nicole Lahr, a member of St. Gabriel the Archangel Parish in Indianapolis, who died that year in Mexico after being struck by a car as a pedestrian. At the time, she was involved in mission work in Honduras.

For more information about the Brooke Nicole Lahr Memorial Fund for International Mission Work, including how to apply for scholarships and contribute to the fund, visit www.archindy.org/ccf/scholarship.html. †

 

 

 

 

 

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