Guest columnist Claudia Lefko: A major league peace activist who never wore down

Frances Crowe died a year ago, on Aug. 27, 2019, just five months after we’d celebrated her 100th birthday. She wanted action, people in the streets, not a party. So some 300 people marched from 33 Hawley St. up Main Street carrying signs and banners calling out the critical issues of the day as well as longstanding issues that concerned Frances throughout her life.

Frances Crowe died a year ago, on Aug. 27, 2019, just five months after we’d celebrated her 100th birthday. She wanted action, people in the streets, not a party. So some 300 people marched from 33 Hawley St. up Main Street carrying signs and banners calling out the critical issues of the day as well as longstanding issues that concerned Frances throughout her life.