Sister Profile

Sister Mildred Anne Dudine

Sister Mildred Anne was born on January 3, 1918 and died on November 21, 2012.

Biography

Sister Mildred Anne was born Mildred Veronica on Jan. 3, 1918. She died on Nov. 21, 2012. She was 94 years old and had been a Sister of Providence for 77 years.

Sister Mildred Anne entered the Congregation on Jan. 12, 1935. She professed first and final vows on Aug. 15, 1937 and 1943, respectively.

Sister Mildred Anne ministered as a music teacher for 66 years in schools located in Illinois, California, Indiana and Washington, D.C. At the age of 80, she was still teaching students at Precious Blood School in Jasper, Ind.

Following retirement, she returned home to the Woods and could be heard playing the piano in Providence Hall at 4 p.m., each day. After taking up residence in health care, she continued to share her piano skills, but one time refused to play a portable keyboard saying “because it was not a whole piano.”

Obituary

Read her obituary here.

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    This is a photograph of the faculty at St. Anthony School from 1980-81, which includes the late Sister Mildred Anne Dudine (top row, sixth across); the late Sister Jeanne Moore (top row, seventh across); the late Sister Ann Francine Cook (top row, eighth across); the late Sister Carole Ann Belucci (middle row, first across); and Sister Martha Rojo (bottom row, third across); the late Sister Ann Stephen Stouffer (bottom row, fourth across); the late Sister Gerard Theuer (bottom row, fifth across); and Sister Katherine Manley (bottom row, sixth across).