Sister Profile

Sister Marie Esther Sivertsen

Biography

Sister Marie Esther is a native of Winthrop, Massachusetts. Currently, she ministers in prayer at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods.

Sister Marie Esther entered the Congregation on February 2, 1952. She took her first vows in 1954 and final vows in 1959.

She graduated from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College with a bachelor’s degree in Latin and a minor in English. She also received a master’s degree in Latin from Boston College.

Of her ministries, Sister Marie Esther taught in grade schools in all grades at various times except the eighth grade for 12 years before moving onto high school. She taught at schools in Terre Haute and Clarksville, Indiana; several schools in Chicago; two in North Carolina; and Malden, Chelsea, Taunton and Wakefield in Massachusetts.

She returned home to the Woods in 1995 and ministered in the Archives department for 21 years.

Sister Marie Esther said her favorite music is opera and classical.

Photographs

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Sisters of Providence celebrating 70 years with the Congregation this year include (front, from left) Sister Patricia Geis, Sister Rose Virginia Eichman, Sister Marie Esther Sivertsen, Sister Marilyn Herber and Sister Mary Ann McCauley. They are with the General Council, including (back, from left) Sister Anne Therese Falkenstein, Sister Laura Parker, General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski, Sister Carole Kimes and Vicar Sister Jeanne Hagelskamp.
Front row (left to right), Sisters Mary Pat Cummings, Dorothy Drobis, Marie Kevin Tighe, Rose Virginia Eichman, Cecilia Carter, Marie Esther Sivertsen. Middle row (left to right), Sisters Mary Ann McCauley, Francis Edwards, Marilyn Herber, Emily Walsh, Patricia Geis, Alice Walsh. Back row (left to right), Sisters Dawn Tomaszewski, Lisa Stallings, Denise Wilkinson, Jenny Howard and Mary Beth Klingel.