Rigel Lisa Lustwerk-Dudás died of lung cancer at home in Lincoln on November 22.
She was born Lisa Jane Lustwerk on June 2, 1952, the daughter of Theodora and Ferdinand Lustwerk. She attended Lincoln schools, and graduated from Lincoln-Sudbury HS in 1970. After two years at Mount Holyoke College, she transferred to the U of Arizona, completing a BS in geology in 1976. She worked at the Ledgemont Laboratory of the Kennecott Corporation in Lexington, then started graduate school atPennsylvania State U in 1978. She completed a PhD in geochemistry and mineralogy in 1990, after working with Noranda in Idaho, the US Geological Survey in Denver, and the Geological Survey of Canada in Ottawa and the Canadian Arctic, a land she grew to love. She specialized in the low-temperature geochemistry of metal transport and deposition, with special focus on the formation of sediment-hosted copper deposits. She did post-doctoral research in oceanography and taught geology at Old Dominion U in Norfolk, VA, until 1998, when she returned to the Boston area. She worked for Safety Partners in Lexington as an environmental health and safety consultant, and for Metabolix in Cambridge.
The Bahá'í Faith was the focus of Rigel's life. She accepted the Faith in 1972, and remained an active Bahá'í until her death, serving for 14 years as the Bahá'í representative to the Billerica Clergy Association. She spent much of 2013 working in Hungary with the Bahá'ís of the city of Debrecen.
Rigel was a cornetist, playing with the 7 Hills Renaissance Wind Band, Second Wind, and a number of other early music groups. Music was a constant in her life, and she performed both as an instrumentalist and a vocalist, singing with the Bahá'í World Congress Choir at Carnegie Hall in 1992.
She is survived by her husband of 36 years, Frank Lustwerk-Dudás.
A graveside service was held on November 24 at the Lincoln Cemetery.
Donations in Rigel's memory can be sent either to the Pine Street Inn, the Mona Foundation, or Interfaith Power and Light.
Published in The Concord Journal from Nov. 28 to Dec. 10, 2015
She was born Lisa Jane Lustwerk on June 2, 1952, the daughter of Theodora and Ferdinand Lustwerk. She attended Lincoln schools, and graduated from Lincoln-Sudbury HS in 1970. After two years at Mount Holyoke College, she transferred to the U of Arizona, completing a BS in geology in 1976. She worked at the Ledgemont Laboratory of the Kennecott Corporation in Lexington, then started graduate school atPennsylvania State U in 1978. She completed a PhD in geochemistry and mineralogy in 1990, after working with Noranda in Idaho, the US Geological Survey in Denver, and the Geological Survey of Canada in Ottawa and the Canadian Arctic, a land she grew to love. She specialized in the low-temperature geochemistry of metal transport and deposition, with special focus on the formation of sediment-hosted copper deposits. She did post-doctoral research in oceanography and taught geology at Old Dominion U in Norfolk, VA, until 1998, when she returned to the Boston area. She worked for Safety Partners in Lexington as an environmental health and safety consultant, and for Metabolix in Cambridge.
The Bahá'í Faith was the focus of Rigel's life. She accepted the Faith in 1972, and remained an active Bahá'í until her death, serving for 14 years as the Bahá'í representative to the Billerica Clergy Association. She spent much of 2013 working in Hungary with the Bahá'ís of the city of Debrecen.
Rigel was a cornetist, playing with the 7 Hills Renaissance Wind Band, Second Wind, and a number of other early music groups. Music was a constant in her life, and she performed both as an instrumentalist and a vocalist, singing with the Bahá'í World Congress Choir at Carnegie Hall in 1992.
She is survived by her husband of 36 years, Frank Lustwerk-Dudás.
A graveside service was held on November 24 at the Lincoln Cemetery.
Donations in Rigel's memory can be sent either to the Pine Street Inn, the Mona Foundation, or Interfaith Power and Light.
Published in The Concord Journal from Nov. 28 to Dec. 10, 2015
Rigel Lisa Lustwerk-Dudás died of lung cancer at home in Lincoln on November 22.
She was born Lisa Jane Lustwerk on June 2, 1952, the daughter of Theodora and Ferdinand Lustwerk. She attended Lincoln schools, and graduated from Lincoln-Sudbury HS in 1970. After two years at Mount Holyoke College, she transferred to the U of Arizona, completing a BS in geology in 1976. She worked at the Ledgemont Laboratory of the Kennecott Corporation in Lexington, then started graduate school atPennsylvania State U in 1978. She completed a PhD in geochemistry and mineralogy in 1990, after working with Noranda in Idaho, the US Geological Survey in Denver, and the Geological Survey of Canada in Ottawa and the Canadian Arctic, a land she grew to love. She specialized in the low-temperature geochemistry of metal transport and deposition, with special focus on the formation of sediment-hosted copper deposits. She did post-doctoral research in oceanography and taught geology at Old Dominion U in Norfolk, VA, until 1998, when she returned to the Boston area. She worked for Safety Partners in Lexington as an environmental health and safety consultant, and for Metabolix in Cambridge.
The Bahá'í Faith was the focus of Rigel's life. She accepted the Faith in 1972, and remained an active Bahá'í until her death, serving for 14 years as the Bahá'í representative to the Billerica Clergy Association. She spent much of 2013 working in Hungary with the Bahá'ís of the city of Debrecen.
Rigel was a cornetist, playing with the 7 Hills Renaissance Wind Band, Second Wind, and a number of other early music groups. Music was a constant in her life, and she performed both as an instrumentalist and a vocalist, singing with the Bahá'í World Congress Choir at Carnegie Hall in 1992.
She is survived by her husband of 36 years, Frank Lustwerk-Dudás.
A graveside service was held on November 24 at the Lincoln Cemetery.
Donations in Rigel's memory can be sent either to the Pine Street Inn, the Mona Foundation, or Interfaith Power and Light.
Published in The Concord Journal from Nov. 28 to Dec. 10, 2015
She was born Lisa Jane Lustwerk on June 2, 1952, the daughter of Theodora and Ferdinand Lustwerk. She attended Lincoln schools, and graduated from Lincoln-Sudbury HS in 1970. After two years at Mount Holyoke College, she transferred to the U of Arizona, completing a BS in geology in 1976. She worked at the Ledgemont Laboratory of the Kennecott Corporation in Lexington, then started graduate school atPennsylvania State U in 1978. She completed a PhD in geochemistry and mineralogy in 1990, after working with Noranda in Idaho, the US Geological Survey in Denver, and the Geological Survey of Canada in Ottawa and the Canadian Arctic, a land she grew to love. She specialized in the low-temperature geochemistry of metal transport and deposition, with special focus on the formation of sediment-hosted copper deposits. She did post-doctoral research in oceanography and taught geology at Old Dominion U in Norfolk, VA, until 1998, when she returned to the Boston area. She worked for Safety Partners in Lexington as an environmental health and safety consultant, and for Metabolix in Cambridge.
The Bahá'í Faith was the focus of Rigel's life. She accepted the Faith in 1972, and remained an active Bahá'í until her death, serving for 14 years as the Bahá'í representative to the Billerica Clergy Association. She spent much of 2013 working in Hungary with the Bahá'ís of the city of Debrecen.
Rigel was a cornetist, playing with the 7 Hills Renaissance Wind Band, Second Wind, and a number of other early music groups. Music was a constant in her life, and she performed both as an instrumentalist and a vocalist, singing with the Bahá'í World Congress Choir at Carnegie Hall in 1992.
She is survived by her husband of 36 years, Frank Lustwerk-Dudás.
A graveside service was held on November 24 at the Lincoln Cemetery.
Donations in Rigel's memory can be sent either to the Pine Street Inn, the Mona Foundation, or Interfaith Power and Light.
Published in The Concord Journal from Nov. 28 to Dec. 10, 2015
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