PATRICIA C. SEXTON

SEXTON--Dr. Patricia Cayo. Professor Emeritus of Sociology at New York University and author more than 15 books on education, women, and especially workers and the labor movement, and widow of Brendan Sexton, former Education Director of the United Autoworkers union, died early Saturday at home in her sleep. Pat was a self-made woman who created her road by walking. She was an autoworker, proud UAW member, schoolteacher, radio broadcaster, all the while putting herself through university and graduate school, achieving tenure at NYU. She was a Board Member of Dissent Magazine, the Workers Defense League, and the Democratic Socialists of America and remained loyal to and proud of the Autoworkers until her last. She will be missed greatly by her stepson Brendan her stepdaughter Patty and their spouses Karen and Barry, her loving grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and by her colleagues and comrades in the academy and in the labor and socialist movements. Details on a service will be at her memorial website http://www.ilasting.com/patriciasexton/memorial.php. In lieu of flowers, donations to Dissentmagazine.org will be appreciated.