Archives: Deceased Sisters

Sister Rosita Hanak, MM

Today, All Souls’ Day, we celebrate the Liturgy of the Resurrection for Sr. Rosita Hanak, who lived 79 years of fidelity to God through her own unique ways of doing mission. She spent 57 of these years in Maryknoll. Sr. Rosita...

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Sister M. Rosaleen Hampson, MM

On Thursday evening, March 3, at 7:20 in our Bethany infirmary, Sister Mary Rosaleen of the Eucharist quietly passed away. Although Sister’s health has always been frail, she was fairly strong during the past year, and was...

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Sister Therese Grondin, MM

We gather this morning to remember and to honor Sister Therese Grondin, a truly valiant and noble woman of Maryknoll. It was a shock to everyone, even though she was almost ninety-five years old, when Therese died suddenly on...

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Sister Ita Ford, MM

“I never said, ‘Help, or save me, or I’m drowning’,” Ita told her mother on a tape she sent home describing her close call with death on August 23rd in a flash flood which took her friend, Sister Carol Piette, M.M....

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Sister Mary Elizabeth Fortin, MM

We gather today to remember and to celebrate the life of our Sister Mary Elizabeth Fortin, who died on August 18, 2013, at 5:35 p.m. surrounded by the loving prayers of her Maryknoll Sisters and in Hospice Care at Phelps...

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