Dorothy Hennessey

Dorothy Marie Hennessey OSF Robert ( born March 24, 1913 in Manchester, Iowa; † January 24, 2008 in Dubuque, Iowa) was a Roman Catholic religious priest and peace activist.

Dorothy Hennessey, was born as the eldest of thirteen siblings in Manchester, Iowa. She entered the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of St. Francis at January 25, 1932 their perpetual she passed on 12 August 1937. She was a teacher in Templeton, Remsen, Worthington, Holy Cross, Dubuque ( Immaculate Conception Academy) and Waterloo ( Columbus High School ) and Portland ( Oregon).

She came over her brother Ron, a missionary in Latin America from 1964 until his death in 1999, the peace movement and the Roy Bourgeois founded the School of the Americas Watch ( SOAW ). She was active in the 1970s to the Cold War, the United States and participated in peace marches. She was known, along with her sister Gwen, as a permanent protest activist against Fort Benning, a training camp for Latin American soldiers of the United States Army southwest of Columbus, Georgia. For their protests were both jailed in 2001 for six months, Sister Dorothy was then 88 years old. 2002 Pacem in Terris awarded the Award Dorothy and Gwen Hennessey.

She died in January 2008 at the age of 94 years in the Franciscan monastery in Dubuque, Iowa.