Alexa Alt Kapusta
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St Thomas, VY 1.
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The butterfly emerging from its cocoon
represents death, the passing from a
circumscribed life to the more complete
and beautiful life of heaven.
THE REFORMED CHURCH
(Corner Nye and Crystal Gades)
Pastor Herman A. Luben
Organist: Co rtney Reese
Soloist: Agatha Canfield
St. Thomas, V. I.
October 23, 1971
"LORD make me an instrument
of Thy peace; where there is hatred,
let me sow love; where there is in-
jury, pardon; where there is doubt,
faith; where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light; and
where there is sadness, joy.
"0 Divine Master, grant that I
may not so much seek to be con-
soled as to console; to be under-
stood, as to understand; to be loved,
as to love; for it is in giving that
we receive, it is in pardoning that
we are pardoned, and it is in dying
that we are born to eternal life."
- St. Francis of Assisi.
ALUA AIR KIuWa (iaO-1971)
Whn her et spirit auddely aslped awy on SImday, Oetober 17, 1971,
to met the Lord she loved, "LaLe, as she was affcioAetlt*l knlo by IM ,
left behind a trail of love an unselfishness that ndeared hr to a11 her
feoily, and to her wids eircle of friends here and in may distant lands.
Born in St. Thora Deceabr 22, 1920, of John end Alean Vace Alt, she
a shielded from the eorrow of the losM of her mother, who died in giving her
birth, by the devoted care of her sant. Mes. Aliae* Vae Carrath and k.
ia Vane Lindqvist. Lende beeae a active amber of the 8any School ead
them of the Conregation of the St. hQbU Reftore Church. Abe is a graduate
of Charlotte Anlie Righ School, worked at er welfare Departat, wa an
attraetive airline hostess for a stint the Joined the tate Departmnt in
vashinton in 1952, first as a seeretar, thea ina challenging position in
which she was in charge of orientation of ewchage students from foreign
Meanwhile, in Washiaton, she ieatised ber Cristianity with fervent
spirit. She became a mber of the P Lari Presyterian Church, vashiaton,
and an active worker in its long Adult Grop and other church activities.
She took lav from her tate Department position to stay at the Prebyteria
Assmbly!e train g School in Richnd, Va., where she completed in 1955 their
graduate course in ChristiIan Mlution, fitting herself for mor intensive
church work. When a new Pres- terisa Church wa beig formed in ount Vernon,
nar Washington, she Journed there every uanday to play the organ nd to
help the fledgling church grow its wiag. This church, now row strong,
abled flower and indicated i tent to set up a permanent tribute to her
At Pilgrin Church, she met a young Church worker, Alvin Kpust, .of
North Dakota, vho it turned out wa also on the State Department stat,
though they had never nt in the labyrinth of the buse State Deprtment
buildings. lot log after. Septober i. 2957, they arrie, and cherished
each other devotedly to the and. 2b4 had fourteen yar of happy shared
experinaes. Mr. Kpusta rose rapidly la the State Departnt service.
Prom 1959 to 196 they ere at the U.S. abass at Lazabourg (tLakin the
opportunity to see uch of WArope togsthr), cm back to uashington for
ore foreign service orientation and language stud, then in 1968 to the
U.S. bassy it Burm, to ahbianton Mgian in 19TO, then off to Afghanistan
in May of this yer,. wher lr. slpust serves as Second Seretary of the
U.S. abassy at the capital, Kabul. Ale= wa a charming hoetess and help-
met on these diplomatic uasigments, which they both enjoyed thoroughly,
end they made many clo friends in the several countries in which they
served. In Luxi bour.g they adopted to baby boys, Paul and Victor (aov
Sand 8 years old). Theirs ue a hapw family, esad in activities
which fascinated and stimlated thea.
Than cme the untimely blow which leave a large cirele of devoted
family and friends to our the passing of hr gentle, happy spirit, always
thoughtful, ever kind.
The shattering blow eoe suddenly, rending ties of friends and family
alike, in the aidst of hopes, joys, ork and plans. Life slipped away-her
life so cherished by all who kIew her. Th gols she set vere within her
rasp. The ideals she cherished, the wytticim so clearly realized in her
travels were blossaing as e tooubhd the hbnds, those lives that entwined
with hers in foreign lead. Now she met have pondered the meanings ad life
value of the er and Middle but so that she could ny vith Oibran:
"And a w n spoke, saying, Tell us of Pain.
And he uid:
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that nclosee
And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily
miracles of your life, your pain woul not see
less wondrous than your Jy;
And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even
as you hayve ways accepted the esasons that pass
over your fields.
Ad you would watch with sereity through the vinters
of your grief."
And speaking of Death, she would ree that you shall find it if you
seek it in the heart of life. "If you would indeed behold the spirit of
death open your hart vide unto the body of life." his life which is
to be cotiued in Victor, Pal, sad moetly in Al.
Roy V. Born and ht d ha
OiRDR OF sBRvC
Organ Prelud "Jesu, Joy of Man's Deiring" J.S. Beo
Invocation For l The Saints S 425
Old Testment L so
Solo "Be Still, Soul" from Sibelius' PIIADIA (Words Psa3lm 6)
Ageth, Cnltield, Contralto
fev Testnmet Lessos
*1ym "Amaing Orace" No. 275
Meditation One Houe--~bn ROom
*Affirmtion of Faith and Prayr
Prayer The Lord's Prser
*Sym "'Tine Is The Glory" bo. 209
The Recessional "Dead March" from SALG by G.. Handel
SConrgation Plee Stand