Mary Rose Korduner Mary Rose Korduner was born June 11th,

Mary Rose Korduner Mary Rose Korduner was born June 11th, 1960 in New London, New Hampshire. She passed away January 21, 2025 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A true testament to being a child of the sixties, Mary Rose gave love from her heart freely and deeply, and adopted a surrogate family along the way in her life; mostly due to the fact that the majority of her biological family were not so kind to her, but that's enough about them. The family that Mary Rose created throughout her life loves her fully, fiercely, and we are absolutely devastated by her sudden passing. We say 'sudden' because even when someone is diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer, when they're given the news one day and gone three months later-it's something you're just never quite prepared for; especially in losing such a compassionate, warrior mama as Mary Rose. Mary Rose had always served the people, but it was when she was just 17, that she joined the army and served her country. She wanted to learn how to become a nurse and to "change the world from the inside out", unfortunately learning the hard way that the US government didn't really care about a young woman like her. She did, however, learn her own value as a deeply caring and warmhearted person, while also learning her nursing craft; which she put to good use for ultimately over 20 years, as a labor and delivery nurse. After the army, Mary Rose got her real nursing education on 'The' Farm in Tennessee, learning under renowned midwife Ina May Gaskin. The Farm is also where Mary Rose gave birth to her son-Jasper Loki Hayward, met a few lifelong friends, and knew her true calling in life would be midwifery. A few years later, the road of life brought her back to her childhood home of the Bay Area, CA, where she gave birth to her daughter-Shashoni Mary Mashallah Walton. Being a young mother with two young children, while also working full time to support them all, was not an easy life. She also attended night and weekend classes to fulfill her lifelong dream to become a Certified Nurse Midwife. However, through all the adversity, with true grit and style-Mary Rose became a graduate of Holy Names College, and eventually Philadelphia University. Although Mary Rose lived in the Bay Area, CA for the majority of her life, at one point she answered a calling to go work on the Navajo Reservation in Chinle at Fort Defiance, AZ. She lived there for several years before making a home in Las Cruces, NM with her husband Saul. Eventually they settled in Albuquerque, NM before her death. While her achievements are many, and the work she did was very important to her, Mary Rose loved being a mother, grandmother, and wife more than anything in the world. It was her love of being a mother that helped her achieve one of her proudest accomplishments-living 34 years clean and sober. We are shattered to have lost her physically in this world, but we try to cling to the fact that her ferocious love lives on in us, and that gives us strength. She is survived by her two children-Jasper and Shashoni, her husband Saul, her grandson Kingston, her two sisters Lisa and Loree, and several nieces and nephews who will miss her tremendously. Gone from this plane of existence but never gone from our hearts-we tell your story, we honor your memory and we keep your spirit alive. There will never be another one like you, and how unfortunate for this world. We love you forever, rest easy now, easy does it.