Biography
Lu Mountenay was a Kansas City peace activist whose husband’s court statement and a contemporary report document her arrests during nonviolent nuclear-disarmament protests.
In his February 18, 2022 statement, reproduced by The Nuclear Resister, Tom Mountenay reports that his late wife Lu had been arrested four times seeking justice and had previously appeared before Judge Ardie A. Bland. The June 3, 2021 account by Jane Stoever specifically identifies her four National Security Campus property-line crossings and describes Tom’s earlier role supporting her. These accounts document actual arrests, but do not supply the dates, individual charges, complete custody durations or separate outcomes of those four episodes.
Lu served on the PeaceWorks Kansas City board, edited newsletters and wrote reports according to Tom’s statement. This profile does not infer a formal first-name expansion, birthday, prison term or current custody status. No empty case is created from undated collective arrest counts.
The December 2018 accounts individually identify Lu Mountenay among five people arrested for trespass at the Kansas City National Security Campus on May 28, 2018 and released after about half an hour. The report describes their decision to plead not guilty in order to seek a trial; no formal plea entry is inferred. On December 7, Judge Martina Peterson dismissed their charges after the prosecution witness failed to appear; the subsequent speeches were an informal anti-nuclear symposium, not a trial verdict against the defendants. No jail admission or completed prison day is inferred.
Contemporary participant report and National Catholic Reporter coverage.
The July 14, 2013 Jane Stoever report individually names this person among twenty-four protesters arrested after crossing the property line at the new Kansas City nuclear-weapons-parts plant on July 13. All twenty-four were fingerprinted, photographed and detained at the Jackson County Police Department. The report gives mixed group release dates of July 13 and 14, with some releases expected July 15, but does not assign an individual endpoint to this person. No formal charge, exact jail admission, completed custody duration or later court outcome is inferred. Earlier charges against Carl Kabat for separate actions are not assigned to this event. The Nuclear Resister, July 14, 2013.
The May 31, 2016 report and reproduced PeaceWorks account identify Lu Mountenay, a Community of Christ minister in Independence, Missouri, as the woman cited for trespass after crossing the National Security Campus property line on Memorial Day, May 30. She was processed and released at the scene the same day. No jail admission or completed prison day is inferred; the scheduled August court appearance is prospective. Contemporary report, The Nuclear Resister.
Jane Stoever’s contemporary account individually names this participant among four people arrested after crossing onto the site of the new Kansas City nuclear-weapons-parts plant on April 14, 2012. It reports their release on $100 bonds within a few hours and a then-planned May 15 municipal trespass hearing. Contemporary source.
