Sister Jean Fuqua
Formerly Sister Jean Marian
Biography
Sister Jean is a native of Owensboro, Kentucky. Currently, she ministers as a volunteer and in the Clinical Care Office at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods.
Sister Jean, formerly Sister Jean Marian, entered the Congregation on February 2, 1955. She professed final vows on August 15, 1962.
She graduated from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics. She also has a master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Notre Dame and has a MBA in business management from Indiana University.
Sister Jean has ministered as a professor, dean and a director in many educational capacities.
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Sister Jean is featured in the following content on the Sisters of Providence website:
- Meaningful new names for the roads of Saint Mary’s
- You can help bring a happy ending to restore St. Joseph’s Lake
- University of Scranton: Week of service 2019
- Twenty-one Sisters of Providence celebrate Senior Jubilees
- Warning, this album may contain photos of sunbathing nuns
- Fuqua Park evolves
Photographs
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Sister Jean Fuqua (center) with General Councilor Sister Carole Kimes (left) and General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski.
Sister celebrating 70 years with the Congregation this year included (front, from left) Sister Ann-Margaret O’Hara, Sister Margaret Quinlan, Sister Suzanne Dailey and Sister Mary Ann Phelan along with (back, left) Sister Alice Ann Rhinesmith and (back, second from right and far right) Sister Jean Fuqua and Sister Ann Matilda Holloran. They are photographed with (back, second from left) General Councilor Sister Anne Therese Falkenstein, Vicar/General Treasurer Sister Jeanne Hagelskamp, General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski, and General Councilors Sister Laura Parker and Sister Carole Kimes. Not photographed: Sister Josephine Bryan.
Sister Jean Fuqua works at her loom weaving a scarf in Providence Hall.
Sister Jean Fuqua and the new Providence Associate she has comapanioned the past year, Marilyn Antonik.
Sisters standing with the new St. Joseph’s statue.