Sister Profile

Sister Kathleen Mary Gay

Sister Kathleen Mary was born on August 27, 1921 and died on April 28, 2017.

Biography

Sister Kathleen Mary was born in 1921 in Woburn, Massachusetts. She died on April 28, 2017. She was 95 years old and had been a Sister of Providence for 72 years.

Sister Kathleen Mary entered the Congregation in 1944. She professed final vows in 1952.

Sister Kathleen Mary ministered as a teacher and principal for 40 years in schools in Indiana, Illinois, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Maryland and New Hampshire. In 1988, she began a ministry as a volunteer at the convent in Chelsea, Massachusetts for 26 years and in Revere, Massachusetts, for an additional nine years. She returned to the Motherhouse in 2014.

She was big fan of Red Lobster.

Obituary

Read her obituary here.

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Here is a photo of the late Sister Kathleen Mary Gay teaching a student at St. Rose in 1995.
Several Sisters of Providence celebrated Jubilees in December. They were honored at a celebration with the Sisters of Providence General Council. The sisters celebrating Jubilees included (front, seated) Sister Ann Jeanette Gootee, (second row) General Council member Sister Mary Beth Klingel, Sisters Mildred Giesler and Kathryn Koressel, General Superior Sister Denise Wilkinson, and Sisters Dorothy Hucksoll, Miriam Clare Stoll, Marie Victoria Podesta, Florence Norton and Kathleen Mary Gay, (back) General Council member Sister Dawn Tomaszewski, Sister Anne Krause, and General Council members Sister Lisa Stallings and Sister Jenny Howard.
Sister Jenny Howard and Sister Kathleen Mary Gay