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...challenge when we had our Christmas cookie open house at the library. The specialty was a meringue cookie. Over the years, Emily remained closely involved with her family. Her brother would host the twins at Christmas at his home in Florida, so the family remained close.” Emily’s niece, Rachael, remembers the great times they had together when she and her husband Mike would come to the Woods and spirit the twins away to their Michigan home. Mike loved to cook...

...now Nancy and Nancy’s husband, Peter, have spent a lot of time traveling to and from concerts and musicals and more concerts and Christmas at the Woods dinners. And how blessed we are that when Sue had designs of studying medical technology after she graduated from Aquinas High School, also in Chicago, Providence intervened in the person of Sister Cherubim, her piano teacher. Sister Cherubim urged Sue’s parents to have her make an audition tape and apply for a music...

...pointed out that Kathryn’s name was at the top of the sign-up list to bake for the bake sale last Saturday for Christmas Fun at the Woods. She was a Eucharistic minister and took her turn as sacristan. She often worked the camera in church during services so those unable to come to church could still be a part of the liturgies. She laundered linens for the church. She laminated relics of Saint Mother Theodore. Other sisters pointed out that...

...by my parents and family.’” In September 2006, Sister Joanna returned home to the Woods as a very energetic resident of the Owens Community. Day and night she might have slipped out to Providence Health Care to comfort sisters for whom she was their designated Health Care Representative. Or she could be found in the computer room to help solve someone’s urgent problem; she is our “patron saint” of such needs. At Christmastime, she relaxed near the tree she loved...