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...bachelor’s degree in nursing from St. Louis University and a master’s degree in pastoral studies from Loyola University. As a Sister of Mary Reparatrix, Sister Jean ministered in the archdioceses of Detroit, Cincinnati and New York as well as the Diocese of Amarillo, Texas. In 1983, she ministered as a social worker at the Center of Concern, Park Ridge, Ill., followed by a year as a pastoral associate at St. Catherine Hospital, East Chicago, Ind. She spent one year as...

...a new ministry in pastoral care at the Sisters of Providence motherhouse at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. “For nine years Mary Eleanor served her sick and elderly sisters as Director of Pastoral Care. Her joyful disposition exemplified by her ever-present smile will be remembered as long as memory endures,” Sister Mary Roger said. Upon retiring in1997, Sister Mary Eleanor volunteered in the office for the canonization of the Congregation’s foundress, Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. Since 2004, she dedicated herself totally to the...

...childlike self-disclosure; hours of contact with patients – each interaction evaluated by instructors and peers. In 1979, Patty earned her Clinical Pastoral Education certificate from Bethesda Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, and from there began ministry as a pastoral assistant in Falmouth, Kentucky. A sidebar: The Cincinnati Red Cross sent Patty a formal acknowledgement of thanks for her volunteer services during the winter emergency of 1978. Many of us remember the severity of storms that raged across the Midwest that year....

...Volunteer NaKea Anderson and Sister Suzanne Buthod ham it up on a visit to the Clabber Girl museum. With the moratorium beginning in 1972, Sister Suzanne continued teaching at Schulte for two years and then taught at Memorial in Evansville for a year. It was while she was there that she decided to move from teaching to parish work. Because her parents were aging, she looked for pastoral ministry in Evansville. She was hired at St. Boniface Parish. She told...

...Galesburg on a snowy day — a uniquely Nolan way of sledding. Nancy also carried on his tradition of having a song for every occasion. If she didn’t know one, she made one up. Just ask our cat and the sisters in Lourdes with whom Nancy lived most of this past year. And from Helena came Nancy’s empathy and common sense. Helena spent much of her life as a teacher, including a long stint at St. Joseph Academy, where all...