Loading...Janet Irwin, the Diocese of Kentucky's editor emeritus, died Saturday evening at Baptist East Hospital after a short illness. She was 78.
Janet retired as editor of the diocese's monthly newspaper, Episcopal News, in 1997 but continued to write for it and its replacement, the quarterly news magazine Episcopal Kentucky, until June 2010, when she retired from the diocesan staff a third time (She served as the newspaper's interim editor between 2002 to 2003.)
She is well known in Episcopal and interfaith communities in Louisville and beyond, as a teacher at St. Francis in Goshen, Christian formation director at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Louisville, a writer and board member for Forward Movement Press, and an interfaith advocate. She was a founder and served as an executive director of Interfaith Paths to Peace in Louisville.
Information about a funeral service will be available next week.
