Archives: Deceased Sisters

Sister Marie Ready, MM

On Wednesday evening, July 9th, the Hawaiian Feast of Our Lady of Peace, Sister Marie Ready quickly and quietly slipped away to God in our Maryknoll Nursing Home. Marie had come home in May 1985 because of an illness and spent...

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Sister M. Antonia Sodya, MM

We lost Sister Antonia to heaven on February 29, 1948 after an operation in Pittston Hospital, Pittston, Pa. As Rose M. Sodya she was born in Butte, Montana on November 11, 1906. After entering Maryknoll in 1924 and being...

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Sister Mary Theophane Shea, MM

There are flowers that show forth their beauty during the day, and as the shadows lengthen fold their petals in sleep, to open them again only with the rising of the sun. Kindred to that loveliness was the soul of our Sister...

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Sister Kathleen Marie Shea, MM

In February of 1977 at the age of 71, Sister Kathleen Marie Shea wrote “Facing the Sunset”, an essay expressing her views on Retirement and her attitude towards life as a whole. It had this poetic introduction: “The...

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Sister Mary Andre Seiler, MM

Sister Mary Andre Seiler was born in Covington, Kentucky on October 28, 1902, and baptized Marcella. She was one of four children born to Andrew H. Seiler and Christina Maylebe Seiler. We extend our sympathy today to Sister...

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