Archives: Deceased Sisters

Sister Tresa Zampedri, MM

Saturday morning, May 11, 2019 the community at Maryknoll Sisters Center awoke to the news that our Sister Tresa Zampedri had died at 4:45 a.m. –as quietly as she had lived during her last years.  She had been in Maryknoll for...

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Sister Patricia Maher, MM

Sister Patricia Maher died on March 27, 2019 at the Maryknoll Sisters Center, Maryknoll NY.  She was 92 years old and a Maryknoll Sister for 71 years. Patricia was born in Harrisburg PA on January 14, 1927 to Helen Mae (Crist)...

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Sister Maria Colabella, MM

Sister Maria Colabella died at Maryknoll Sisters Home Care at noon on March 19, 2019 after a long illness. Maria was born in Brooklyn, NY on May 9, 1940 to Emelia Luongo Colabella and Pasquale Colabella. She had two sisters, Sr....

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Sister Bernadette Higa, MM

“My vocation had its beginning with my conversion,” Bernadette said, in answer to the priest who questioned her at her canonical examination. When our Sister Bernadette Shigeko Higa died on March 12, 2019 at the Maryknoll...

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Sister Joan Chatfield, MM

Sister Joan Chatfield died on March 1, 2019 at Straub Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii. She was 86 years old and a Maryknoll Sister for 68 years. Joan was born in Elizabeth NJ, on October 7, 1932 to Henry S. Chatfield and Angela...

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