Archives: Deceased Sisters

We are gathered here once again as a community to celebrate a Liturgy of Resurrection for one of our Sisters who has entered into the fullness of life. Sister Nancy Bone’s 60 years as a Maryknoll Sister ended early on the...

Sister Anna Boland died on October 6, 2010, while visiting her sister, Peg, in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Anna was 83 years old and had been a Maryknoll Sister almost 61 years. Anna was born in Armstrong, Iowa on April 7, 1927 to...

This will bring you the somewhat expected news that this morning, just towards the end of Mass, Sister Mary Rita very quietly passed away, in our Bethany Infirmary. Sister Mary Rita (Elizabeth Marie Bodkin), was born in...

Around 11:00 p.m. on Tuesday June 28, 2005, in our Maryknoll Residential Care IV, with our Sisters praying at her bedside, Sister Joan Bielmann’s was brought into the joy of Eternal Life. Joan was 83 years of age and had been a...

Sister Ellen Theodore (Mary Margaret Bezy) was born November 20, 1923 in Charleroi, Pennsylvania and attended the public schools of that town. For five years, after high school graduation, she was a bank clerk and bookkeeper in...