Archives: Deceased Sisters

This morning we gather together to celebrate the Mass of the Resurrection for our Sister Philomena Marie Rosario. The poignancy of her many years of suffering was transformed for her into new life when she went peacefully to her...

At 4:15 a.m. the morning of May 11, 1994, Sister Miriam Rooney died in her sleep in our Skilled Nursing Facility. Miriam was seriously ill for more than a year and because of increasing health needs Miriam was admitted to the...

Sister Mary Celeste Riemen died peacefully at Bethany on February 12th at 5:50 a.m. She had joined the Bethany community in 1968 after an illness struck her. During the past seven years she remained a silent sufferer and could...

It was just after 8:00 a.m. on Sunday, August 5, 1990 when the call came from Phelps Memorial Hospital that Sister Edith Riehle had anticipated the Feast of The Transfiguration and gone to God. She died at 7:00 a.m. It seems she...