500 at funeral pray for nun's hit-run driver

Originally published: July 14, 2012 9:13 AM
Updated: July 14, 2012 9:31 PM
By KEVIN DEUTSCH kevin.deutsch@newsday.com

Photo credit: Barry Sloan | Mourners look on as Sister Jacqueline Walsh's casket is carried out of St. Edward Confessor Church in Syosset. Sister Walsh was killed in a hit and run crash in Water Mill. (July 14, 2012)

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More than 500 mourners whose lives were touched by Sister Jacqueline Walsh paid respects to her at a moving funeral Mass Saturday, celebrating the nun's compassion while urging forgiveness for the hit-and-run driver who killed her.

"Sister Jackie lived a life that understood the importance of justice tempered with mercy. I cannot imagine her acting any differently this week," the Rev. Thomas...

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