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Larry and his son Nate at the laboratory, where Nate worked after college. Source Kevin Wells, Crisis Magazine, June 11, 2026
By Kevin Wells, Crisis Magazine, June 11, 2026
Kevin Wells’s latest book, Coached By the Curé: Lessons in Shepherding with St. John Vianney was just released by Scepter. His memoir, The Hermit: The Priest Who Saved a Soul, a Marriage, and a Family was released by Ignatius Press last autumn. For more information on his books, writing, and speaking, visit kevinwells.org.
This vale of tears is full of sorrows but also joys. Sometimes they come together in ways only understood by the Almighty.
Mr. Pasadena was lowered into the earth in the corner of the Maryland he loved, a hard old shot-and-beer town wedged between Annapolis, Baltimore, and one of the Chesapeake Bay’s least glamorous inlets. Bruce Springsteen built platinum albums off of towns like Pasadena.
He could have cut a triple album off the back of Lawrence Wilbert Stephens Jr., 57, who was laid to rest Friday beneath a pleasant summer sky.
Larry’s many mourners still haven’t made peace with his sudden death. For some, he had brightened their day only hours before. They heard rheumatoid arthritis was knifing each day into his joints, but he never mentioned it. And when they caught him gritting his teeth, he would smile through his pain-reddened, full-moon-sized face. ….
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