Wed, 03/10/2021 - 3:44pm sarahp MARY (ARNOLD) PEABODY
BRISTOL Mary (Arnold) Peabody, 83, was lifted to Heaven on Sunday, March 7, 2021, from EastView in Middlebury, Vt. Daughter of Elizabeth (Hamlin) Arnold and Philip E. Arnold, Mary was born on April 25, 1937, in Worcester, Mass. She grew up in western Massachusetts and southern Vermont, graduated Jacksonville (Vt.) High School in 1955, matriculated at the University of Vermont, where she met her future husband, Jim Peabody, and graduated in 1959 with a B.S. in Home Economics.
Mary and Jim were married on Sept. 5, 1959, in Jacksonville, settled first in Vergennes, Vt., and subsequently moved to Bristol, Vt., where they have lived for 59 years.
Kathleen Thompson inquest: Former soldier believed to have fired fatal shots expected to give evidence this week
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A preliminary hearing in the inquest into the shooting of a Derry mother-of-six Kathleen Thompson in November 1971 has been told that a soldier who believes he may have fired the fatal shots will be giving evidence this week when the inquest resumes on Wednesday.
At the close of the inquest last week some concerns were expressed about the possibility of a former soldier identified as Soldier KTM72 not being able to give evidence.
Counsel for the former soldier Joseph Aiken QC had said he was waiting for medical reports after discovering that his client had been in a serious accident that left him in hospital for 18 months.
The inquest into the shooting of a Londonderry mother-of-six almost 50 years ago heard there could be questions around the competence of a former soldier who may have fired the fatal shots to give evidence.
Kathleen Thompson (47) was killed in disputed circumstances outside her home in Creggan during an Army operation in 1971.
As the resumed inquest concluded for the week, Coroner Sandra Crawford was told witness KTM72, scheduled to give evidence next week, could have an underlying difficulty .
The inquest was told that the witness had been in a serious accident in 1974 and requests had been made for a neurological report to assess his competence.
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