Saying goodbye

This article was published on 03.12.09

Mourners lined up Sunday at the memorial service for community leader Phyllis Kaiser as Sparks United Methodist Church. Kaiser, daughter of a Las Vegas mayor and mother of the director of a Reno domestic abuse agency, was director of Vietnam refugee resettlement in Nevada and director of the Community Welfare Agency. As a peace activist, she traveled to places like Nicaragua and Vietnam. Once when U.S. Sen. Paul Laxalt of Nevada warned of a “danger” that the state, by opposing the MX missile system and nuclear waste storage, was risking becoming known as a “peacenik state,” Kaiser responded, “Sounds good to me.”

Mourners lined up Sunday at the memorial service for community leader Phyllis Kaiser as Sparks United Methodist Church. Kaiser, daughter of a Las Vegas mayor and mother of the director of a Reno domestic abuse agency, was director of Vietnam refugee resettlement in Nevada and director of the Community Welfare Agency. As a peace activist, she traveled to places like Nicaragua and Vietnam. Once when U.S. Sen. Paul Laxalt of Nevada warned of a “danger” that the state, by opposing the MX missile system and nuclear waste storage, was risking becoming known as a “peacenik state,” Kaiser responded, “Sounds good to me.”

PHOTO by dennis myers

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