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Reverend Eugene Brake, food bank founder, dies at 89
The Catholic priest who co founded the Capital Area Food Bank and spent decades advocating for social justice died July 20 at his Frederick Maryland home. He was 89. Brake left the priesthood in the late 1980s after his relationship with Lynn Brantley. The food bank opened in 1980 and grew to distribute 73 million pounds of food last year. Brake remained active with the group until about 2012 and was known for dramatic demonstrations for inmates, Soviet Jews, and other causes. He was born July 24, 1934 in Wilmington Delaware and ordained in 1965. He is survived by Brantley five sisters and three brothers.
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Capital Area Food Bank
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United Planning Organization
Interfaith Conference
Washington
Congress
Reagan Administration
SNAP
Food Bank
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Washington Post
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Arthur Moody
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Radha Muthiah
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Wilmington
Delaware
Oblates of St. Francis de Sales
Niagara University
de Sales Hall School of Theology
Hyattsville
New Castle Correctional Institution