{"id":234,"date":"2013-04-17T15:38:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T15:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=234"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:45:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:45:59","slug":"barbara-willke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Willke."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wife of Dr. John Willke and a great pro-life woman.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/hvcljournal.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341cc5fb53ef017d42e26547970c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Barbara willke\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341cc5fb53ef017d42e26547970c\" src=\"https:\/\/hvcljournal.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341cc5fb53ef017d42e26547970c-250wi\" style=\"width: 220px;\" title=\"Barbara willke\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2013\/04\/15\/barbara-willke-godmother-of-modern-pro-life-movement-passes-away\/\" target=\"_self\">With great sadness, Cincinnati Right to Life and pro-life advocates across the country are mourning her loss today. Willke served as co-founder along with her husband and as chairman of the organization for 28 years. She died peacefully Sunday night at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati, after suffering a severe head injury due to a fall.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Barbara Willke was a beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and<br \/>\ninternationally known author, lecturer, and expert in human sexuality.<br \/>\nShe held B.S. and R.N. degrees from the University of Cincinnati,<br \/>\nCollege of Nursing &amp; Health, plus graduate studies at University of<br \/>\nDayton.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Mother of six, grandmother of 22, foster mother of several teenagers,<br \/>\nBarbara headed the Department at the College of Nursing for five years<br \/>\nbefore her full-time career as wife and mother.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Her husband, Dr. John Willke, is past president of National Right to<br \/>\nLife, president, Life Issues Institute and president emeritus,<br \/>\nInternational Right to Life Federation. They would have been married for<br \/>\n65 years this June.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">With Dr. Willke, Barbara co-authored twelve books on human sexuality<br \/>\nand abortion. Together they created audio and visual materials that were<br \/>\nproven to be basic teaching tools throughout the world. Their materials<br \/>\nhave been translated into 30 languages on all five continents. She and<br \/>\nDr. Willlke frequently appeared on radio and TV shows. They have spoken<br \/>\nin 64 different countries.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the coverage from local Cincinatti media &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cincinnati.com\/article\/20130416\/NEWS0104\/304160134\/Barbara-Willke-90-Right-Life-pioneer\" target=\"_self\">Barbara Willke, 90, was Right to Life pioneer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here are some moving tributes from many pro-life groups &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecatholicbeat.sacredheartradio.com\/2013\/04\/17\/tributes-to-barbara-willke\/\" target=\"_self\">Tributes to Barbara Willke<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wife of Dr. John Willke and a great pro-life woman. With great sadness, Cincinnati Right to Life and pro-life advocates across the country are mourning her loss today. Willke served as co-founder along with her husband and as chairman of the organization for 28 years. She died peacefully Sunday night at Good Samaritan Hospital in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}