Archives: Deceased Sisters

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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Sister Paulita Hoffmann, MM

Sister Paulita Hoffmann went to God on March 14, 2019 in the Maryknoll Sisters Center. She was 104 years old and had been a Maryknoll Sister for over 85 years. Mary Rose Hoffmann was born on August 13, 1914 in Cincinnati, Ohio....

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Sister Frances Mary Horan, MM

Sister Frances Mary Horan died on Friday, March 1, 2019 at the Maryknoll Sisters Center, Maryknoll NY. She was 94 years old and a Maryknoll Sister for 75 years. Frances Mary was born on April 8, 1924, in Philadelphia, PA....

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Sister Margaret Tryon, MM

Sister Margaret Tryon died on January 28, 2019 at the Maryknoll Sisters Center in Maryknoll NY.  She was 90 years old and a Maryknoll Sister for 71 years. Margaret was born July 28, 1928 in Eddington, PA, one of five children of...

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