Category Sister: H-J

Sister Mary Mercy Hirschboeck, MM

Today we, as a Community, have the privilege to pay our last tribute to an outstanding Maryknoller: a great woman and religious missioner, Sister Mary Mercy Hirschboeck. Her death marks the passage of another era in our...

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Sister Anna Otome Hayashi, MM

In this, her 60th year as a Maryknoll Sister, Anna Otome Hayashi (Susanna) entered into eternal joy. Sister died here in our nursing home on the morning of May 27th. A few hours before that some of us from the Japan Region sang...

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Sister Helen Higgins, MM

“We are Easter people and Alleluia is our song!” Sister Helen enjoyed singing but none of us expected she would be singing her Alleluia with a heavenly choir of angels this Easter season. Helen was hoping she would...

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Sister Mary Rachel Jackson, MM

On the feast of St. John Baptist at 7:00 P.M., Sister Mary Rachel Jackson died at Bethany where she had been receiving devoted nursing care. Agnes Jackson was born in Mansfield, Ohio on July 13, 1891, daughter of Mary Catherine...

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Sister Corita Herrgen, MM

Sister Mary Corita Herrgen died peacefully in the Residential Care Unit at Maryknoll, New York on Tuesday, September 14, 1999. She was ninety years of age and had been a Maryknoll Sister for 68 years. Rita Anna Herrgen was born...

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