Archives: Deceased Sisters

Sister Mary St. John Brown, MM

“It shall be given to you: good measure, and pressed down and shaken together, and running over. For with the same measure that you shall meet withal, it shall be measured to you again.” Reverend dear Fathers,...

Read More

Sister Ann Brisolara, MM

On December 29, 1974, Sister Ann Brisolara celebrated her 45th birthday. She was euroute to New Orleans, Louisiana, her home, to visit her family. This was the beginning of her furlough. In the afternoon of December 30, 1974, on...

Read More

Sister Mary Alphonsa Bergeron, MM

A telephone call from Mother Mary Columba Wednesday noon brought the unexpected news of Sister Mary Alphonsa’s death at Valley Park. Our hearts went out to Sister Mary Philip, who had no warning of her beloved sister’s...

Read More

Sister Mary Elma Belscher, MM

This morning we gather to celebrate the life of Sister Mary Elma Belscher who on July 4th would have celebrated sixty-one years as a Maryknoll Sister. Sister was in Residential Care when she died peacefully on June 19, 1999, the...

Read More

Sister Mary Genevieve Beez, MM

“Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it done unto me according to thy will.” The words of the text this morning I know are very, very dear to each and everyone of you Sisters in this chapel.  You recall that those...

Read More