Archives: Deceased Sisters

Sister Rosemary Bass, MM

The words of St. Paul to the Romans seem fitting today as we gather to recall and celebrate the life of our Sister Rosemary Bass: “I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that...

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Sister Katherine Taepke, MM

On February 28, 2012, the news of Sister Katherine Taepke’s death at Phelps Memorial Hospital, Sleepy Hollow, NY came as a great shock.  She was 90 years old and had been a Maryknoll missioner for 61 years. Katherine Anne Taepke...

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Sister Dominic Marie Turner, MM

You have received word of the death of Sister Dominic Marie Turner at Our Lady of Maryknoll Hospital in Hong Kong on Friday, March 5, 1971. Sister Dominic Marie (Edna Irene Turner) had been on the critical list and knew the...

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Sister Maria Thyne, MM

This morning during our Community Mass, we were all startled to receive a phone call from Sister Thomas Ann, at St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York City, announcing that Sister Maria had quietly passed away. Sister Maria (Edith...

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Sister Miriam Thomas Thornton, MM

Sister Miriam Thomas Thornton died peacefully at 6:20 am. on Sunday, May 7, 2006, in Maryknoll Residential Care IV. Sister Jeanne Therese Oshrin, her good friend of many years, was with her. Sister’s niece, Sister Kathy...

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