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Sister Ann Kevin O’Connor
...who were both born in Ireland and proud of it! Her brother Maurice survives, while two brothers, Donal and Ed, and three sisters, Mary, Sister of Providence Margaret Ellen, and Betty have been reunited with her in heaven. Theresa Ann was close to her siblings and to their children, her nieces and nephews. Theresa Ann attended elementary school at St. Francis Xavier in LaGrange and Resurrection in Chicago. Her high school years were spent at Providence in Chicago, and after...
Sister Eleanor Pierce (formerly Sister Reparata Marie)
...the life of Sister Eleanor Pierce who died Nov. 23, 2013 at age 90. Eleanor was born to John Pierce and Ella McKevitt Pierce in Chelsea, Mass. on Aug. 29, 1923. She was one of five children. A brother, Francis, and two sisters, Elizabeth Smith and Loretta McCormack, preceded her in death. She is survived by one sister, Patricia Pierce. Eleanor was baptized at Saint Rose, Chelsea, where she also attended elementary and high school and spent many years of...
Ten years of transformation
...from volunteering on an alpaca farm/organic garden, to working in a daycare, to earning a doctorate in Osteopathic Medicine. Most recently I completed my residency training to become a Family Medicine Physician. In my personal life, my family grew by three when each of my siblings met their significant others. Friends from high school and college have steadily married and started families. Every time I visit home, the little farming town I grew up in is changing rapidly. In my...
Sister Bernadette Mary Carroll
...and Margaret O’Brien Carroll. Julie’s family belonged to All Souls Parish and it was there that she was baptized and attended grade school where she was taught by the sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary. Her first year of high school was at the Holy Names School, Ramona Convent, but at the conclusion of her freshman year, she entered the Sisters of Providence juniorate at Marywood in Anaheim. Julie joined the Congregation in 1939 and was given...
The life of Eleanor Bailly (Mother Mary Cecilia Bailly)
...take her two daughters on a trip to Europe. She mentioned to Mother Mary Cecilia that she should come back to the Bailly Homestead and open a school there. She did just that and it was the first school in that county. She proposed to open an entire mission, but it was turned down by the Sisters of Providence. So in 1872, she left Baillytown and was assigned to St. Augustine, Fort Wayne, for eight years. Bishop Dwenger appreciated her...
Sister Catherine Arkenberg (formerly Sister Jean Loretto)
...brother Raymond, are with us today; two brothers, James and Thomas, and her sister, Sister Jean, preceded her in death. From early on, she was a Sister of Providence “product,” having attended Maternity BVM grade school in Chicago and Providence Juniorate High School here at the Woods. From there, she entered as a postulant, on Jan. 5, 1939. She received the name Sister Jean Loretto, and years later, returned to her baptismal name. Her other milestones related to membership in...
Foundation day through a young sister’s eyes
...good family friend who graduated from Mother Guerin High School (now Guerin Prep High School), a Sisters of Providence school in River Grove, Illinois. Did I mention Dina hadn’t met a single Sister of Providence at this point? This Guerin Prep grad was the matron of honor in her sister’s wedding. Oh, and this same sister also used to live on Providence Lane. Are you getting goosebumps yet? In Dina’s words, “You can’t plan this kind of stuff.” Above all,...
Sister Bernadetta Ryan
...2002, at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. She was 93 years old and had been Sister of Providence for 76 years. Sister Ruth continued: Woburn and Malden, both in Massachusetts, became the home bases where she completed grade school and high school education. She entered the novitiate of the Sisters of providence before finishing high school at Cheverus and continued her progress at St. Mary’s Academy at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Entering the Congregation in June of 1925, she professed vows on Dec. 8,...
Sister Florence Marie Maxwell
...Marie died June 30. Florence Maxwell was born on Feb. 11, 1928, in Joliet, Ill., to George and Rose (Vertin) Maxwell. She had one brother and one sister. She attended St. Patrick Grade School and Providence High School, both in Joliet. She entered the Congregation July 21, 1946, and professed first and perpetual vows Jan. 23, 1949, and Aug. 15, 1954, respectively. Sister Florence Marie earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. Sister Florence Marie commenced teaching...
Sister Charles Van Hoy
...looked up to their Aunt Marjorie, and will miss her dearly. Marjorie attended St. Charles Borromeo grade school in Bloomington, as well as the public high school there, graduating in 1947. In February 1949, she entered the Sisters of Providence and was given the name Sister Charles. She professed her first vows on Aug. 15, 1951, and her perpetual profession on that same date in 1956. Sister Charles earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and...
Newsnotes from the Sisters of Providence winter 2022
...Eucharistic Liturgy and receptions. Sisters Betty and Kathy also visited Saint Ann Parish, site of the first Black Catholic Church in Fayetteville where Sisters of Providence opened the first reverse segregated Catholic School in 1956 at the request of Bishop Vincent Waters. Providence Cristo Rey honors Sister Jeanne Hagelskamp Sister Jeanne Hagelskamp with John Lechleiter In October, Providence Cristo Rey High School in Indianapolis honored Sister Jeanne Hagelskamp, SP, with the inaugural John C. Lechleiter Award during its Pride of...
Celebrating 200 years of Catholicism in North Carolina
...founding members of the parish. It was the desire of the sisters not to leave Fayetteville until they had taken pictures of Saint Patrick Church and School. Outside Saint Patrick School is a historical sign identifying Saint Patrick Catholic School as Fayetteville’s original Christian School since 1937. The sisters also had the desire to visit Saint Ann Parish, several miles away, which was the site of the first Black Catholic Church in Fayetteville and where our sisters opened the first...