Category Sister: N-Q

Sister Ramona Oppenheim, MM

Sister Ramona Oppenheim, M.M. seemed to have an appointment with God, that she followed an inner clock right up until the evening of her death on December 3, 2025. On Wednesday, December 3, 2025, Ramona showed a significant...

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Sister Dolores Poelzer, MM

In 1975, Sister Dolores wrote a brief bio of herself which she closed with, “Although the tree of my life will have been sun-nurtured and rain-nourished, as well as sometimes bark-bruised and wind-buffeted, I hope that when the...

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Sister Teresita Perez, MM

The closing words of a poem Sr. Teresita wrote come to mind as we celebrate her life at this Liturgy of Christian Burial. In the poem entitled “The Brook,” Teresita is sitting by a brook. She is at peace because she feels God’s...

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Sister Ruth Marie O’Donnell, MM

As several sisters finished the last “Hail Mary” of the rosary, Sister Ruth Marie O’Donnell peacefully returned to the God she served faithfully all of her life. An hour earlier, Ruth Marie a lover of music, was serenaded with...

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Sister Patricia O’Mera, MM

Our beloved Sister Patricia O’Mera died peacefully on January 13, 2023 at the Maryknoll Sisters Center, Maryknoll, NY.  Sister was 95 years old and a Maryknoll Sister for 74 years. No matter what one says, one can never say too...

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