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A Father’s Day Tribute!
...a couple of games of ping-pong, or outside in the backyard to play catch, or some other outdoor activity. He was fun to be with and a great tease!” Sister Jenny added her father was diagnosed with cancer and passed away during her senior year of high school. “I miss having had the opportunity to have a relationship with him as an adult to adult,” Sister Jenny said. “However, he was a great ‘teacher of life’ for me and I...
Sister Mary Patricia Peacock (formerly Sister Alice Elizabeth)
...was for 27 years in schools in St. Philip Neri and St. Joan of Arc School Indianapolis and at St. Andrew, St. Columbkille, Our Lady of Sorrows, St. Angela and St. Mel-Holy Ghost Schools in Chicago. In these schools she worked with young children from pre-school age to grade 3. Sister Mary Pat’s pastoral theology degree prepared her to serve as pastoral associate and DRE at St. Dennis in Lockport for 10 years and at Assumption parish in Coal City,...
Sister Marilyn Trobaugh (formerly Sister Robert Louise)
...1936, in Lafayette, Indiana. She attended St. Mary Elementary School there and then came to the Aspirancy at the Woods for high school. She graduated in 1954, the same year she entered the Congregation of the Sisters of Providence. In her early years, she was known as Sister Robert Louise except to her novitiate pals who dubbed her “Bobby Lou!” She was received into the novitiate on August 15, 1954, and made first profession and final profession on the same...
Sister Helen Dolores Losleben
...shopping could be a fun time with Helen Dolores. She was handy around the house and liked to cook up a batch of tasty quesadillas for supper. An excellent seamstress, she made her own dresses. After retiring from schools, Helen volunteered at the South Central Los Angeles Ministry project. Young non-English speaking mothers came there not only to learn English, but also life skills like budgeting, writing checks, and activities to prepare their children for school. Helen provided child care...
In the Pope’s Presence
...Lawrence Ann met up with three young students who were very excited to be there. Sister Lawrence Ann said the students were also attending the address and as it turns out, they were from Indianapolis Chatard High School, • Prior to the address, Sister Lawrence Ann met with a lawyer who had ties to St. Philip Neri Catholic School. She served as principal there from 1977-84. As it turns out, the man is the son of the first secretary she...
Sister Grace Stewart
...and having no other support system to provide care for her daughter, approached the Sisters of Providence at St. John’s Academy in Indianapolis to ask if her daughter might board there. Although crowded conditions already existed at the school, an agreement was reached. This arrangement continued until Mary Elizabeth reached seventh grade when Mrs. Stewart felt that her daughter could ride the street car to and from school and be alone in the house until she herself returned from work....
Jean Lynch: her own spirituality has been deepened
...come home! 5.) What is your commitment? My commitment is to honor Saint Mother Theodore through caring for the children in our preschool using her precept: “Love the children first, and then teach them.” I am committed to fulfilling my ministries of lector and Eucharistic minister in the most prayerful manner. I strive to attend daily Mass before school, and I pray the morning Liturgy of the Hours every day. 6.) How did you and Sister Cathy go through the...
Sister Marie Victoria Podesta
...her room. Marie Victoria was educated by the Sisters of Providence at St. Mel and at Providence High School in Chicago. She entered the Sisters of Providence in 1944, and made her first profession in 1947 and final profession in 1952. She earned a bachelor’s of science at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and her master’s at St. Louis University. Sister Florence Norton, who was studying at St. Louis at the same time and who roomed with her, remembers how, while Florence...
Sister Margaret Norris (formerly Sister Marie Angeline)
...Conception, Norwood Park (1952-54); Teacher, Maternity BVM, Chicago (1954-56). In North Carolina: Teacher, Blessed Sacrament, Burlington (1957-60). In Missouri: Teacher, Annunziata, St. Louis (1962-65). In Indiana: Teacher, Assumption, Evansville (1960-62); Teacher/Principal, St. Michael, Greenfield (1965-69); Teacher, Tenth Street School, Jasper (1969-78); Teacher, Jasper Middle School (1978-83); Teacher, Fifth Street School, Jasper (1983-2001); Tutor, Exercise Facility, Diocese of Evansville (2001-03); Volunteer, Diocese of Evansville (2003-08); Massage Therapy, Sisters of Providence, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2008-2024); Volunteer, Providence Food Pantry, The Helping Hands, West...
Sister Brendan Harvey
...Harvey, who died Jan. 14. Margaret Harvey was born Aug. 27, 1919, in Ayrshire, Scotland, to John and Margaret (Bresnahan) Harvey. “John, born in Scotland, and Margaret, born in Ireland, passed on to their four children the strong faith of their Celtic heritage,” said Sister Mary Roger. Sister Brendan attended elementary school at St. Angela, Chicago. For her secondary education, she attended Providence Juniorate at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She entered the Congregation Jan. 9, 1937, and professed first and perpetual vows...
Sister Dorothy Drobis (formerly Sister Irene Therese)
Adeline Dorothy Drobis was born February 20, 1932, in Chicago to August and Veronica Kowalski Drobis. She attended Our Lady of the Angels, Our Lady of Mercy and St. Mark elementary schools, and Providence High School in Chicago – all places where she came to know the Sisters of Providence, said Sister Ann Casper in her commentary for Sister Dorothy Drobis, formerly Sister Irene Therese, who passed away on October 15, 2020, at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. She was 88 years...
Sister Shawn Marie McDermott
...section below. Sister Shawn Marie McDermott complete ministry In Indiana: Teacher, St. John the Baptist, Whiting (1964-66). In North Carolina: Teacher, St. Patrick School, Fayetteville (1966-68). In Massachusetts: Teacher, St. Patrick School, Stoneham (1966-76); Substitute Teacher, Malden (1982-85); Pastoral Associate, St. John the Baptist Parish, Peabody (1985-89); Teacher, St. Raphael School, West Medford (1990-98); Teacher, St. Agnes School, Arlington (1998-2010); Hospice Volunteer, Merrimack Valley Hospice, Lawrence (2012-2021). In New Hampshire: Director of Religious Education, St. Thomas More Parish, Durham (1976-82)....