A long life of compassion

Mary Agnes Haunz learned to be frugal after growing up during the Depression.

“I think she invented recycling,” Sister Ruth Ann Haunz, an Ursuline nun, said of her mother. “She grew up very poor and learned values were much more important than things.

“But, she was extravagant with her love,” Haunz said.

Haunz, 97, of Pewee Valley, died Wednesday, April 25, 2007, in the presence of her eight children.

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