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Thank you for your service
Marie Perez-Eraci, Vicariate V Youth Ministry Coordinator, stands with Sister Guillermina Gutierrez Lopez and Capuchin Father Michael Sullivan, both of St. Clare de Montefalco Parish, before they received catechetical awards on May 10. Karen Callaway/Catholic New World
With this issue, the Catholic New World salutes and thanks the religious men and women who have devoted their lives to serving the people of God. In the following pages, we honor hundreds of teachers, nurses, chaplains and parish priests who given anywhere from 25 to 80 years in service of the Lord. Join us in offering them our thanks.
Men Religious
Augustinians
50 YEARS
BROTHER DAVID ADELSBACH, an Evergreen Park native who attended St. Philip Neri Parish, did maintenance work, supervised students and is a certified nursing assistant. He served at Mendel Catholic High School; St. Rita High School; Orsini Home Health Care; Franciscan Home Care; Augustinian Senior Care at Tolentine Monastery, Olympia Fields; and at the Sisters of St. Casimir motherhouse. He now is at the Austin Friary, Matteson, and cares for elderly Augustinian friars at Blessed Stephen Bellesini Friary, Lemont.
FATHER JOHN DOWLING, an Evergreen Park native from St. Rita Parish, spent most of his religious life as a missionary in Peru but also did pastoral work at St. Gall, St. Rita and in New York and Texas. He now is associate pastor at St. Turibius Parish.
FATHER KARL GERSBACH, from St. Thomas the Apostle Parish, did formation work and province administration, taught and researched Augustinian history. He served at St. Nicholas of Tolentine Monastery, Tolentine College, Olympia Fields; Mendel Catholic High School; and the Augustinian Provincialate, Evanston. He now is working at St. Thomas Monastery, Villanova University, Villanova, Pa.
FATHER JEROME HEYMAN, from Immaculate Conception Parish in Waukegan, was a parish minister, teacher and director of retreats and parish missions. He served at St. Rita High School; St. Rita High School Monastery; St. Rita Parish and in Michigan and Indiana. He now does sacramental ministry at Our Mother of Good Counsel, Homer Glen, Ill.
FATHER REINHARD STERNEMANN was a parish minister, school chaplain, administrator and building manager. He served at St. Nicholas of Tolentine Monastery and Tolentine Center, Olympia Fields and St. Rita High School; as a missionary in Peru and in Wisconsin, Michigan, Missouri, Arizona and Texas. He is retired at St. John Stone Friary.
FATHER R. WILLIAM SULLIVAN, an Evergreen Park native from St. Cajetan Parish, was a parish minister, teacher, chaplain, counselor and Augustinian province personnel director. He served at St. John Stone Friary; Mendel Catholic High School; Little Company of Mary Hospital, Evergreen Park; St. Clare of Montefalco; and St. Rita Monastery. He now is associate pastor, St. Jude Parish, New Lenox, Ill.
BROTHER THOMAS TAYLOR was a teacher and province administrator. He served at Mendel Catholic High School, Blessed William Monastery, St. Martin de Porres Academy, St. Rita High School, Hales Franciscan High School and in Michigan. He now is province secretary at the Austin Friary, Matteson.
BISHOP DANIEL TURLEY, from St. Cajetan Parish, has been a missionary priest and bishop in Peru, where he still serves. He also did formation work, was a rector and taught in the seminary there.
40 YEARS
FATHER JAMES THOMPSON, from St. Rita Parish, did pastoral and formation work and counseling and was a hospital chaplain, He served at St. Rita Parish; St. John Stone Friary; and in Missouri and Ontario. He now is a chaplain at Little Company of Mary Hospital, Evergreen Park.
25 YEARS
FATHER BERNARD DANBER, from St. Rita Parish, was a teacher, school administrator and hospital chaplain. He served at Mendel Catholic High School Monastery; St. Dorothy; Brother Rice High School; St. Monica Monastery; Montini Catholic High School, Lombard, Ill.; and St. Francis de Sales High School. He now serves as a chaplain, Holy Cross Hospital, and resides at St. Rita Parish.
Benedictines of St. Meinrad’s Archabbey
25 YEARS
FATHER EDWARD LINTON worked as a teacher, chaplain and pastoral minister. He served at St. Meinrad’s College, Marian Heights Academy in Indiana and now is pastor of St. James Parish, 29th and Wabash.
Christian Brothers
60 YEARS
BROTHER NICHOLAS SCHUMER, an Evanston native, was a teacher and bursar. He served at St. Patrick High School for 26 years and is retired in Westmont.
50 YEARS
BROTHER KEVIN CONVEY, a Chicago native, was an administrator and university professor. He serves as director of Education and Mission for the Midwest District Provincial Office in Burr Ridge, Ill., and serves 17 high schools, three universities and seven middle schools across the Midwest District, including Chicago.
BROTHER DAVID GALINSKI, a Chicago native, has been a high school teacher, administrator and counselor. He serves at St. Patrick High School as a counselor and has been working there since 1971.
BROTHER THOMAS DOMINIC VANCE, an Oak Park native, has been a high school educator who served at St. Patrick High School for 30 years. He now works in development as an administrative assistant in the provincial office, Westmont, Ill.
Society of the Divine Word
75 YEARS
FATHER JOHN KERSTEN was a chaplain and author who did pastoral and missionary work. He served in the Netherlands; was a missionary in Indonesia, where he was interned for 14 months on the orders of a Communist commander of the Indonesian Army; did pastoral ministry in Mississippi for 30 years and held biracial parish meetings, which led to the Ku Klux Klan setting fire to the parish hall in 1964. He wrote “Guide for the Religious Instructor,” “Handbook for Catechetics in the Training Colleges for Catholic Teachers” and “Holy Marriage.” He is retired at the Divine Word Residence, Techny.
70 YEARS
FATHER CHARLES SCHNEIDER was a missionary, community leader and administrator. He served in Ghana for 55 years and is retired at the Divine Word Residence, Techny.
65 YEARS
FATHER ARNOLD LANG was a teacher, pastoral minister and chaplain. He served in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Iowa, West Virginia and in Appalachia. He is retired at the Divine Word Residence, Techny.
50 YEARS
FATHER PETER SILVESTER was a missionary in Papua New Guinea and in the southern United States. He is retired at the Divine Word Residence, Techny.
BROTHER ROBERT ZALIKOWSKI was a maintenance engineer at Divine Word seminaries in the United States and a reading tutor and assistant office manager at the Sacred Heart Adult Education Center, Washington, D.C. He is retired at the Divine Word Residence, Techny.
25 YEARS
FATHER JANUSZ HOROWSKI has worked in pastoral care, school administration and philanthropy. He served in Mexico, Poland and Brazil and now is the director of development, Society of the Divine Word Chicago Province, Techny.
FATHER ROBERT KELLY, an Evergreen Park native who attended St. Sabina and St. Francis DeSales parishes, has worked in higher education, vocations, philanthropy and as a chaplain. He served in the Chicago Province and in Wisconsin, Iowa and Mississippi. He now is the director of Mission Appeals, Techny.
Dominicans
60 YEARS
FATHER JOHN VINCENT BLAKE served in education and pastoral ministry. He ministered at Fenwick High School, Oak Park, and in Mississippi, Kansas, Wisconsin and Bolivia. He lives in retirement at St. Pius V Priory and does limited service in Chicago.
FATHER ROBERT ALEXIAUS GOEDERT, an Oak Park native from St. Pius V Parish, was a preacher and pastoral minister, provincial administrator and chaplain with the U.S. Air Force while living at St. Thomas Aquinas Priory, River Forest; Hines Veterans Hospital, Maywood; and in Louisiana, New Mexico and Michigan. He now is at St. Pius V Priory and does preaching ministry.
Franciscans-Assumption BVM Province
60 YEARS
FATHER BLASE KARAS worked with the poor and homeless and was a missionary to Novosibirsk, Siberia. He now is director of the Anawim Home for alcohol-dependent Polish immigrants in Chicago.
50 YEARS
FATHER NATHAN JASKULSKI has been a chaplain to the Felician Sisters. He served at Franciscan Village, Lemont, and now serves at the Felicians’ Peterson Avenue motherhouse.
Franciscans, Sacred Heart Province
60 YEARS
BROTHER JOHN BUSH, from St. Agnes Parish, served his order by cleaning, cooking and tailoring. He served at St. Peter’s in the Loop and is retired in Sherman, Ill.
50 YEARS
FATHER JAMES HOFFMAN was a teacher, missionary, administrator and confessor. He served at St. Joseph High School Seminary, Oak Brook; the Franciscan House of Mary and Joseph and was Sacred Heart Province Animator for Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation, the province’s social justice program. He also worked in Michigan and was a missionary in Uganda and Zaire. He now serves as a confessor at St. Peter’s-in-the- Loop.
25 YEARS
FATHER LAWRENCE M. NICKELS, a Chicago native from Our Lady of the Ridge Parish, Chicago Ridge. He did pastoral ministry, social work, province administration and formation work. He served as a chaplain for the Franciscan Sisters of Our Lady of Perpetual Help and now is the executive director of the Franciscan Connection, St. Louis.
Passionists
60 YEARS
FATHER FRANCIS W. CUSACK, from St. Francis de Paula Parish, did pastoral ministry and retreat work. He now serves as the local superior of the Immaculate Conception Monastery.
FATHER SEBASTIAN MAC DONALD was a professor at the Catholic Theological Union, a provincial superior and now serves as the local superior, St. Vincent Strambi.
50 YEARS
FATHER FRANCIS X. KEENAN, an Oak Park native from St. Ferdinand Parish, is a hospital chaplain and serves at Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge.
Paulists
50 YEARS
FATHER JAMES R. O’GARA, from St. Finbarr Parish, was a campus and parish minister. He served at Old St. Mary’s Church. He is semi-retired and assists at the Korean Martyrs Catholic Church.
Redemptorists
25 YEARS
FATHER RADOSLAW JASZCZUK is pastor of St. Mary of Czestochowa, Cicero.
FATHER ZBIGNIEW PIENKOS is associate pastor of St. Mary of Czestochowa, Cicero.
Resurrectionists
25 YEARS
FATHER STEVEN RHEINHOLD BARTCZYSZYN, from St. Hyacinth Basilica Parish, has been a teacher, assistant principal, principal/president, rector, vocation director and pastoral minister. He served at Weber High School; Holy Cross High School, River Grove; the Office of Catholic Education as a high school consultant; and for 13 years helped celebrate weekend Sunday Masses and officiated at other sacraments at area churches and worked with auxiliary bishops as master of ceremonies. He now serves on the General Curia as 1st Councilor and Secretary General, Rome.
FATHER MICHAEL DANEK, from St. Hyacinth Basilica Parish, has been an associate pastor, pastor and provincial superior. He served at St. Hedwig; Weber High School; St. Hyacinth; St. Stephen, King of Hungary; St. Wenceslaus; and as provincial superior, Congregation of the Resurrection, USA Province. He now is the admnistrator at Holy Trinity Parish, Westmont.
FATHER GARY G. HOGAN has been a teacher, associate pastor, pastor and vocation director. He served at Gordon Tech High School, St. Hedwig, vocation director for Chicago and now is the director of Post- Novitiate Formation at Resurrection Seminary, St. Louis.
FATHER PAUL SIMS has been an assistant professor, high school president and principal, member of an administrative team and teacher. He served at Gordon Tech High School; Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood; Quigley Prep Seminary; St. Martin de Porres High School, Waukegan; vocation director for the Congregation of the Resurrection USA Province and now is an assistant professor, Concordia University, River Forest. He also was coordinator of the province missiology program and part-time professor of Educational Leadership.
Viatorians
60 YEARS
FATHER ROBERT COONEY worked in secondary education, parish ministry and as a librarian and chaplain. He served at St. Viator High School, Arlington Heights; St. Viator Parish; in Peoria, Springfield, Rock Island, Kankakee and Bourbonnais, Ill.; and in Nevada. He is retired at the Viatorian Province Center, Arlington Heights.
FATHER DONALD FITZSIMMONS worked in secondary education and substance abuse counseling. He served at St. Viator High School, Arlington Heights; Lutheran General Recovery Center, Vernon Hills; Keys to Recovery, Holy Family Hospital, Des Plaines; and in Peoria, Ill.. He is retired at the Viatorian Province Center, Arlington Heights.
FATHER DONALD HUNTIMER worked in secondary education, parish ministry and as a chaplain and administrator. He served at Marian Catholic High School, Chicago Heights; St. Viator High School, Arlington Heights; the Archdiocese of Chicago as director of religious education; and in California, Nevada and Arizona. He is retired at the Viatorian Province Center, Arlington Heights.
FATHER THOMAS LANGENFELD worked in secondary education, community administration, formation, administration and counseling. He served at St. Viator High School, Arlington Heights; Catholic Theological Union; in Kankakee and Peoria, Ill.; and in Nevada and Rome. He is retired in Las Vegas.
FATHER DONALD WEHNERT worked in secondary education and parish ministry. He served at St. Viator High School, Arlington Heights; St. Viator Parish; in Springfield, Peoria, Kankakee, Beaverville and Martinton, Ill.; and in Nevada. He is semi-retired and serves at St. Patrick Church, Kankakee, Ill.
FATHER EUGENE J. WEITZEL, a Chicago native, worked in secondary education, parish ministry and as a chaplain. He served in Peoria, Springfield and Beardstown, Ill., where he lives in retirement.
FATHER KENNETH E. YARNO worked in secondary and college education, parish ministry and administration. He served at St. Philip High School; DePaul University; St. Viator High School, Arlington Heights; St. Viator Parish; and in Kankakee, Springfield and Bourbonnais, Ill. He is retired at the Viatorian Province Center, Arlington Heights.
50 YEARS
FATHER GEORGE J. AUGER served in secondary education, parish ministry, as a general councilor and in community leadership. He served at St. Viator High School, Arlington Heights; in Peoria, Bourbonnais, Springfield and Kankakee, Ill.; and in Rome. He also was the local director/novice master at the Viatorian Province Center, Arlington Heights, where he serves as the local director.
FATHER JAMES F. FANALE worked in secondary and college education, parish ministry as a campus minister. He served at DePaul University; in Kankakee, Ill.; and Indiana. He now is the pastor at St. Anne Church, St. Anne, Ill.
FATHER JOHN E. LINNAN worked in secondary and seminary education, parish ministry, business and administration. He served at the Catholic Theological Union; in Peoria and Bourbonnais, Ill.; in Washington, D.C.; Nevada; and Arlington Heights, where he was the assistant provincial for the Province of Chicago and now is retired at the Viatorian Province Center.
Vincentians
50 YEARS
FATHER HUGH O’DONNELL, from St. Vincent de Paul Parish, taught in the seminary and did formation work and provincial administration. He served as the provincial of his congregation’s Midwest and China Province. He now is a missionary in Taiwan.
FATHER ROBERT ROHRICH, from St. Gertrude Parish, has been an independent counselor. He now is doing marriage and family counseling, Lemont.
25 YEARS
FATHER ARTHUR MCDEVITT, from St. Daniel the Prophet Parish, worked in education, administration and formation. He served at the Perboyre Mission House, Chicago; in Missouri; and at De Paul University’s School of Education, where he now is an associate professor.
Women Religious
Sisters of St. Agnes
60 YEARS
SISTER LORAINE PFANNENSTIEL was a teacher and school administrator. She served 25 years in Chicago at St. Ambrose and St. James and in Wisconsin, Kansas and Indiana. She is retired and does volunteer work at Mercy Hospital and Aquinas Literacy Center.
50 YEARS
SISTER DOLORES LYTTLE is a Chicago native who was a teacher, school administrator and office coordinator. She served for 25 years in Chicago at St. Ambrose, the 8th Day Center for Justice and in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Kansas. She now works with the Big Shoulder Health Record Review Project and similar initiatives.
Benedictine Sisters of Chicago
70 YEARS
SISTER WINIFRED SOMMER was a teacher and principal who developed special methods for teaching blind students. She taught Braille in an archdiocesan program at St. Hilary, served for 36 years at St. Symphorosa and also worked at St. Joseph (Orleans St.), St. George (39th & Wentworth) and St. John Nepomucene. She is retired and lives at St. Joseph Court at St. Scholastica Monastery.
60 YEARS
SISTER BENITA COFFEY, from St. Gertrude Parish, ministered in education, adult spirituality and congregational leadership. She served as the Benedictine Sisters’ formation director and subprioress; was alumnae director for St. Scholastica Academy; and taught at Queen of All Saints; Mother of God, Waukegan; St. George (39th & Wentworth); St. Hilary; and St. Symphorosa. She now serves at St. Scholastica Monastery as vocation minister, director of the Benedictine Oblate program and promoter of social justice.
SISTER MARY FRANCES SCHERMERHORN, a Chicago native from St. Joseph Parish, Wilmette, taught and was a financial officer for her community and its schools. She served at St. John Nepomucene; St. Lambert, Skokie; and St. Scholastica Academy. She is semi-retired and does the financial work for the British Infant School, Skokie.
SISTER SUZANNE ZUERCHER, an Evanston native from St. Paul of the Cross Parish, Park Ridge, was a teacher, administrator and congregational leader. She also was a school psychologist, campus minister and author of five books in six languages. She served at St. Scholastica Academy, Loyola University Chicago, the Institute for Spiritual Leadership and she is a member of the Chicago Chapter of the International Thomas Merton Society. She also directs workshops and retreats and is a frequent presenter. She also does fundraising for St. Scholastica Academy and serves as an executive coach, psychotherapist and spiritual director.
Sisters of St. Casimir
80 YEARS
SISTER M. PIETA LANSBERKAS taught elementary school at St. George, Our Lady of Vilna and at schools in the East. She now does prayer ministry at her community’s Chicago motherhouse.
75 YEARS
SISTER FRANCES DEBULSKI, from All Saints Parish, was a teacher and librarian at Maria High School; St. Norbert, Northbrook; Immaculate Conception (44th Street); St. Anthony; Our Lady of Vilna; St. George and in New Mexico and Nebraska. She now does prayer ministry at her community’s Chicago motherhouse.
60 YEARS
SISTER M. MILDA BLINSTRUBAS taught at Our Lady of Vilna; Nativity BVM; St. Norbert, Northbook; and in New Mexico, Maryland and Florida. She now works as a master teacher and tutor.
SISTER M. MICHAELYN PAKROSNIS was a dietary worker at Providence of God; St. Bartholomew; St. Norbert, Northbrook; and in New Mexico, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Florida and at her community’s Chicago motherhouse, where she now does prayer ministry.
SISTER M. LEANDRA YERKES, from Nativity BVM Parish, did education and vocation work. She served at St. George, Our Lady of Vilna and in New Mexico and Argentina. She now does prayer ministry at her community’s Chicago motherhouse.
SISTER M. DOLOROSA WERTELKA, from Immaculate Conception Parish (44th Street), was an educator who served at Nativity BVM, St. George, Our Lady of Vilna, All Saints, Maria High School and in New Mexico, Indiana, Nebraska and Pennsylvania. She now does prayer ministry at her community’s Chicago motherhouse.
SISTER M. JULINE REVAS, from St. George Parish, has been a teacher, nurse and administrator. She served at St. Anthony, SS Peter and Paul, St. Bartholomew, Our Lady of Vilna, Providence of God and Holy Cross Hospital, where she now is vice president.
Sisters of Christian Charity
80 YEARS
SISTER AGNETTE BENGAL was a teacher, administrator, community leader, counselor and seamstress. She served at St. Gregory Convent and St. Alphonsus Convent, Prospect Heights; Mallinckrodt College of the North Shore, Wilmette; Josephinum High School; was a counselor to the provincial at her community’s Wilmette Motherhouse and ministered in Missouri, Michigan, Minnesota and Louisiana. She does prayerful presence among sisters at Sacred Heart Convent, Wilmette.
SISTER M. ANNE MARTY was an elementary school teacher, community leader and an English as a Second Language tutor of children and adults. She served at St. Mary, Riverside; St. Teresa of Avila; Holy Ghost, South Holland; and in Michigan, Louisiana, Missouri and Minnesota. She does prayerful presence at Sacred Heart Convent, Wilmette.
75 YEARS
SISTER RENEE MILLER, from St. Mary Parish, Evanston, was a teacher, sacristan, minister of care to the homebound and pastoral minister. She served at St. Aloysius; St. Isaac Jogues, Niles; St. Teresa of Avila; St. Margaret Mary; St. Theresa, Palatine; Josephinum Convent; Sacred Heart Convent, Wilmette; and in Iowa, Missouri, Michigan and Minnesota. She is retired and does prayerful presence at Sacred Heart Convent, Wilmette.
SISTER MARIE MUHR, from St. Augustine Parish, was a sacristan for more than 60 years in various chapels, was a chauffeur and seamstress, and worked as a housemother at an orphanage staffed by her community. She served at Sacred Heart Convent and at her community’s motherhouse, Wilmette and in Missouri. She does prayerful presence at Sacred Heart Convent, Wilmette.
SISTER MARY EILEEN O’CONNOR, from St. Sylvester Parish, taught elementary grades through college, tutored, taught religious education and was a consultant and part-time receptionist. She served at St. Theresa, Palatine; her community’s motherhouse and Mallinckrodt College, Wilmette; St. Gregory; and in Louisiana, Minnesota and Texas. She works as a tutor and CCD liturgy consultant at Sacred Heart Convent, Wilmette.
70 YEARS
SISTER THERESE FIELDS taught kindergarten through seventh grade, offered prayer/retreat ministry and ministry with the poor, was a community leader and did formation work. She served at St. Aloysius; St. Martha, Morton Grove; St. Theresa, Palatine; St. Joseph, Wilmette; in Steger and Calumet City; and in Louisiana. She is a local leader and does prayer ministry at St. Mary of Celle Parish, Berwyn.
60 YEARS
SISTER ELIZABETH ANN BUSCHER taught, was provincial treasurer and worked on formation of seminarians. She served at St. Isaac Jogues, Niles; Mallinckrodt College; at her community’s motherhouse, Wilmette; and in Louisiana, Minnesota and Missouri. She now does collection and distribution of food and supplies for the poor and is a community seamstress and part-time receptionist at Sacred Heart Convent, Wilmette.
SISTER MARY ANN POPPLER was a teacher, pastoral minister and community leader who also served as supervisor of lay housekeeping staff. She served at St. Gregory; St. Teresa of Avila; St. Theresa, Palatine; Our Lady of the Resurrection Hospital; in Westmont and Chillicothe, Ill.; and in Missouri, Minnesota and Iowa. She does pastoral ministry at Sacred Heart Convent, Wilmette.
50 YEARS
SISTER DOLORES BOZIF has been a community leader, elementary school teacher, pastoral minister, local treasurer and religious education coordinator and teacher. She served at St. Teresa of Avila, St. Aloysius and in Arkansas, Minnesota, Missouri and Louisiana, where she now teaches elementary school in New Orleans.
SISTER BERNADETTE VOSS, from St. Margaret Mary Parish, has been a cook and homemaker and religious education teacher. She ministered to the poor and sick and did pastoral ministry. She served at St. Raphael Convent; Sacred Heart Convent, Wilmette; Josephinum Convent/St. Aloysius; and in Missouri, Louisiana, Arkansas, Minnesota and Arizona. She now does prayerful presence at Sacred Heart Convent, Wilmette.
Adrian Dominican Sisters
60 YEARS
SISTER CATHERINE AHERN, from St. Justin Martyr Parish, taught at Regina Dominican High School, Wilmette; St. Joseph, Homewood; and at the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center for 30 years. She is retired in LaGrange.
SISTER HELEN BELSITO taught primary grades at Ascension, Harvey; St. Joseph, Homewood; and St. Celestine, Elmwood Park. She lives at the Dominican Life Center, Adrian, Mich.
SISTER CELESTE MARY BOURKE, from Our Lady of Peace Parish, taught elementary school and college and worked as a resident services director, chaplain and volunteer. She now does prayerful presence in Adrian, Mich.
SISTER MARION COPPE, from Our Lady of Peace Parish, taught primary grades, high school and adults all in Michigan, where she lives in retirement in Fraser.
SISTER NANCY FISCHER, from St. Mary Star of the Sea Parish, was a teacher and school administrator at St. Matthew and St. Joseph, Homewood, where she is retired. Sr. Elizabeth Lynch, from St. Nicholas of Tolentine Parish, taught at St. Joseph, Homewood, and was principal at St. James, Maywood, and St. Denis, where she now does ministry of prayer and presence.
SR. ANN (ELLEN MAUREEN) MALONEY, from St. Ailbe Parish, taught, was a principal and coordinated adult religious education. She taught at Our Lady of Knock, Calumet City; St. Edmunc, Oak Park; Regina Dominican High School, Wilmette and Aquinas High School; coordinated religious education at Mater Christi, North Riverside; Old St. Mary; and St. Teresa; and did secretarial work at Catholic Theological Union and the Parable Conference, River Forest. She is retired in Adrian, Mich.
SR. MARY CATHERINE NOLAN, from St. Felicitas Parish, was a theology teacher and Mariologist. She taught grade school and high school, including at Aquinas Dominican High School, and at the university level. She was a rector at the University of Notre Dame, on the staff of the diocese of New Ulm, Minn., and served on her congregation’s formation team. She is retired in Chicago but continues to write, lecture and offer retreats.
SISTER PATRICIA J. WALSH, from St. Columbanus Parish, was a teacher, administrator, director of religious education, pastoral associate and extraordinary minister of Communion. She served at Regina Dominican High School, Wilmette; Marist High School; Mercy Home for Girls; St. Benedict; St. Isidore, Blue Island; and St. Joseph, Homewood. She is the director of religious education at Sacred Heart Mission (Vincennes & 116th).
50 YEARS
SISTER ROSEMARY ABRAMOVICH has been a teacher, director of religious education, hospital chaplain and retirement center administrator. She served at St. Albert the Great, Burbank; Our Lady of Loretto, Hometown; St. Clare of Montefalco; and Little Company of Mary Hospital, Evergreen Park. She does pastoral care in a health care setting in Adrian, Mich.
SISTER LOIS JEAN PAHA, from St. Denis Parish, was a teacher, administrator and pastoral associate who also did formation work. She served in Texas and Arizona, where she is director of Pastoral Services and the Office of Formation for the Diocese of Tucson, which includes the formation of lay ecclesial ministers and permanent deacons for the diocese and on-going faith formation for the clergy and laity and evangelization.
Sinsinawa Dominicans
70 YEARS
SISTER GLORIA (AMABILIS) HIGGINS taught at Epiphany; in Rockford, Ill.; and in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Missouri. She now lives in community at the Sinsinawa Motherhouse.
SISTER MEINRAD PAHLKE taught music at Rosary College (now Dominican University), River Forest; in Rockford, Ill.; and in New York; Washington, D.C.; Wisconsin, Iowa; and Connecticut. She now lives in community at St. Dominic Villa, Hazel Green, Wis.
SISTER CHIARA PAULONI was a teacher and artist at Queen of Peace, Burbank; St. Barnabas Convent; in Shorewood, Ill.; and in Wisconsin, Colorado and New Mexico. She now lives in community at St. Dominic Villa, Hazel Green, Wis.
60 YEARS
SISTER MARISE BARRY, from St. Barnabas Parish, was a teacher, social worker and congregational leader. She served at Immaculate Conception (North Park Avenue), was provincial of the Eastern Province for her community; and worked in Wisconsin; Massachusetts; Washington. D.C.; Indiana; New York; Alabama; and Mississippi. She now is a volunteer and lives in community in the Chicago area.
SISTER MARGARET (JOHN FRANCIS) CONROY, from St. Brendan Parish, was a teacher, school administrator, hospital support staff member and director of religious education. She served at St. Richard; Epiphany; St. Giles, Oak Park; St. Barnabas; St. Vincent Ferrer, River Forest; Queen of All Saints; Mercy Hospital; St. Joseph, Homewood; and in Wisconsin and Minnesota. She lives in community in Chicago.
SISTER ROSALEEN HANLEY, from St. David Parish, was a teacher and missionary. She served at Immaculate Conception, Waukegan; and in New York; Washington, D.C.; Alabama; Florida; and in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. She lives in community at St. Dominic Villa, Hazel Green, Wis.
SISTER PATRICIA (JARETT) HENSCHEL was a teacher and administrator at St. Sabina; St. Edmund, Oak Park; Rosary College (now Dominican University), River Forest; in Rockford, Ill.; and in Montana, Minnesota, Wisconsin and California. She lives in community at the Motherhouse.
SISTER MARY THERESE (LORAN) O’MALLEY was a teacher and administrator at Dominican University (formerly Rosary College), River Forest; in Peoria, Ill.; and in Connecticut, Wisconsin and Rhode Island. She lives in community in River Forest.
SISTER RICHELLE SCHMITZ, from St. Margaret of Scotland Parish, was a teacher and administrator at St. Giles, Oak Park; St. Mary of the Woods; and in New York, Minnesota and Wisconsin. She lives in community in Chicago.
50 YEARS
SISTER CATHERINE (ANNE MARY) COX worked with young children at St. Thomas More and its learning center; St. Luke and Dominican University, River Forest; St. Barnabas; St. Zachary, Des Plaines; St. Hugh, Lyons; in Hinsdale and Joliet, Ill., where she was the assistant superintendent of teacher personnel for Catholic schools in the Joliet Diocese; and in Wisconsin and Nebraska. She lives in community in Brookfield, where she is a playground supervisor and substitute teacher.
SISTER BEVERLY (MARIE JUDINE) DISTEFANO, from St. Brendan Parish, taught and did missionary work. She served in Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, Alabama, Florida and Bolivia. She is a member of the administrative team at Holy Rosary School, Jacksonville, Fla.
SISTER MARIE MALACHY, from St. Catherine of Siena Parish, Oak Park, was a teacher, administrator and campus minister. She served in Oklahoma, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Honduras, where she has been a tribunal field advocate in San Pedro Sula since 1999. She also is a member of the Diocesan Partnership Team with the Diocese of San Pedro Sula.
SISTER MARY (MARY GORETTI) HOPKINS has been a teacher, preacher, administrator, counselor and spiritual director. She served at St. Basil; Immaculate Conception (North Park Avenue); St. Vincent Ferrer, River Forest; St. William; and in Wisconsin, Montana and Colorado. She has worked as a gerontology consultant and retreat preacher for congregations of religious women and men and dioceses since 2001.
SISTER BARBARA (RICHARIA) HUTFLESS was a teacher and cook. She served at St. Thomas the Apostle; St. Louis de Montfort and St. Germaine, Oak Lawn; and in South Dakota, Minnesota and Colorado. She lives in community at the Sinsinawa Motherhouse.
SISTER KAREN (JOHN RIBERA) KRALL, from Epiphany Parish, worked in the financial administration of religious congregations, teaching and school administration. She served at St. Thomas More; St. Louis de Montfort, Oak Lawn; St. Alphonsus/St. Patrick, Lemont; and in Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Joliet, Ill., where she has ministered as finance director for the Sisters of St. Francis since 2003.
SISTER DENISE LANDERS, from Visitation Parish, has worked with Hispanic women, men and children. She served at St. Barnabas and in New Jersey, Colorado, Wisconsin, Iowa and Texas, where she has been teaching English at Presentation Ministry Center, San Antonio, since 2010.
SISTER JOAN MCCANN, from St. Brendan Parish, has been a teacher, manager and supervisor. She served at St. Mary, Evanston; SS. Faith, Hope and Charity, Winnetka; and in Washington, D.C.; Wisconsin; and Maryland. She volunteers in the Chicago area.
SISTER ELIZABETH “BETH” (MARIE CAELAN) MEEGAN, from Little Flower Parish, has been a teacher and administrator. She served at St. Richard; was the superintendent of schools for both the dioceses of Phoenix and Rochester, Minn.; and worked in Wisconsin, Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Florida, where she has been principal at St. Andrew School, Cape Coral, since 2007.
SISTER ELAINE (BARTHOLOMEW) TAYLOR, from Ascension Parish in Oak Park, taught the arts at St. Thomas the Apostle; Trinity High School, River Forest; St. Benedict; and in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Wyoming and Florida, where she founded and has directed the St. Petersburg Petite Little Theatre since 1997.
Springfield Dominicans
60 YEARS
SISTER MARY ANN RUSSELL was an educator at Marian Catholic High School, Chicago Heights; Our Lady of Grace; St. Bernadette, Evergreen Park; and in Aurora, Ill. She is a helper at her community’s motherhouse, Sacred Heart Convent, Springfield, Ill.
SISTER MARY ANICETA SKUBE was an educator and pastoral associate. She served at St. Christina and Our Lady of Grace; in Naperville for 23 years, where she received their Jaycees 1992 Distinguished Service Award; and in Newton, Jacksonville, Aurora and Springfield, Ill.; and in Minnesota. She now does prayer ministry at Sacred Heart Convent, Springfield, Ill.
50 YEARS
SISTER MARCELLINE KOCH was an educator and administrator. She served at Our Lady of Grace and in Bradley, Springfield, East Moline and Hardin, Ill. She is a former director of Project Irene and serves as director of the Office of Justice for the Dominican Sisters of Springfield, Ill., where she lives at Sophia House.
Felician Sisters
75 YEARS
SISTER MARY MARGUERITE GRUSZEWSKA, from Holy Innocents Parish, served for 40 years within the Chicago archdiocese and her congregation and worked in other towns and cities in Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota. She now does ministry of prayer at Our Lady of the Angels Convent.
SISTER MARY JOSEPHINE JANICKI taught primary grades and was a nursing assistant. She served in Illinois, Wisconsin, Alabama and Minnesota. She now does ministry of prayer at Our Lady of the Angels Convent.
SISTER MARY PRESENTIA NITECKE, from St. Michael Parish (South Shore), worked in elementary education and health care in Illinois, Wisconsin, North Dakota and Minnesota. She now is the medical records merger, St. Francis Hospital, Milwaukee.
70 YEARS
SISTER MARY PLACIDIA KULIGOT, from St. Joseph Parish (S. Hermitage Ave.), taught elementary school and worked in the Chicago archdiocese for 35 years, including 23 years at St. Isidore, Blue Island. She also served in other Illinois towns and in Minnesota. She now does internal ministries, Sacred Heart Convent, Centralia, Ill.
SISTER MARIE IRENE PETRYKOWSKI was a teacher and school administrator and worked with the elderly. She served in the Chicago archdiocese for 20 years, in other Illinois towns and cities and Wisconsin and Minnesota. She now is a local archives assistant at Our Lady of the Angels Convent.
SISTER MARY VIRGINETTE RECZEK, from Holy Trinity Parish, taught deaf students in the Chicago Archdiocese for 17 years, was a staff member of the Psychoeducational Center of Felician College/Montay College and ministered in education in Illinois and Wisconsin for 43 years. She now is a local archives assistant, Mother of Good Counsel Convent.
SISTER MARY ALODIA STOZEK is a Chicago native whose home parish was St. John of God. She worked in education in Illinois for 38 years, was the general councilor of the Felician Sisters and served as director of the Psychoeducational Center of Felician College/Montay College. She now is a local archivist at Mother of Good Counsel Convent.
SISTER MARY JANELLA WARCHAL, from St. Joseph Parish (S. Hermitage Ave.), ministered in health care and administration for 49 years in Illinois and Wisconsin. She now does internal ministries at Our Lady of the Angels Convent.
60 YEARS
SISTER MARY BEATRICE KNIPPLE was a teacher and principal for 33 years in the Chicago archdiocese. She served at Good Counsel High School and now is a patient visitor at Villa St. Francis/Terrace at St. Francis, Milwaukee.
SISTER MARY FRANCINE LAGOCKI, from St. Joseph Parish (S. Hermitage Ave.), was a teacher and principal for 56 years in the Chicago archdiocese. She served at St. Wenceslaus and St. Richard and now does pastoral ministry, ministry to the homebound and is a substitute teacher at St. Richard parish and school.
SISTER MARY PETER PODOBINSKI taught for 25 years at six parish schools in the Chicago archdiocese, 10 of those years at St. James (Fullerton Avenue). She also served the elderly for 12 years and now does internal ministries at Mother of Good Counsel Convent.
SISTER MARY THEOPHILIA ATWORZYDLO, from St. John of God Parish, taught in the Chicago archdiocese for 20 years and served the elderly for 33 years at St. Andrew Life Center, Niles, where she is a receptionist.
SISTER MARY FRAN WILKOWSKI, from St. Joseph Parish (S. Hermitage Avenue), was a teacher and administrator in the Chicago archdiocese for 34 years and served at Good Counsel High School and St. Joseph High School. She now is an emergency room liaison at St. Mary Hospital, Centralia, Ill.
50 YEARS
SISTER MARY ROSALIE DISTERHAFT taught in Illinois and Wisconsin for 46 years. She served at four Chicago archdiocesan schools including St. Linus, Oak Lawn. She now teaches at Holy Wisdom Academy, Milwaukee.
SISTER MARY JEANINE HEATH worked as a high school guidance counselor. She served at Good Counsel, St. Joseph and Our Lady of Tepeyac high schools. She is a local archives assistant and does internal ministries at Mother of Good Counsel Convent.
SISTER MARY LEA MALAK was a teacher and educational aide in Illinois and Wisconsin for 26 years. She served at St. Linus, Oak Lawn, and Incarnation, Palos Heights, schools and now does internal ministries at Mother of Good Counsel Convent.
SISTER MARY INEZ MOCH, from St. John of God Parish, worked for 28 years as a librarian and congregational administrator. She served at Archbishop Quigley Prep, Felician College/Montay College and was a member of the Felician Sisters Provincial Administration of Chicago. She now is a local archives assistant at Mother of Good Counsel Convent.
SISTER MARY MICHAELEEN PARDOWSKY was a nurse in health care institutions in Illinois and Wisconsin for 39 years. She specialized in gerontological nursing and provided health care services for the elderly and frail Felician sisters in Chicago. She now is assisting at the Felicians’ North American Postulancy, Pittsburgh, Pa.
SISTER MARY JEANETTE SKORNIA was a teacher and principal in Illinois and Wisconsin for 33 years, including 16 years at five Chicago archdiocesan schools. She now is the assistant to the plant manager at Mother of Good Counsel Convent.
Franciscan Sisters of Chicago
60 YEARS
SISTER ANNE MARIE KNAWA, from Five Holy Martyrs Parish, has been a teacher, catechist, community leader and administrator, eucharistic minister and lector. She wrote a book detailing the history of the Franciscan Sisters of Chicago; worked on revising the constitution of her community; planned and executed completion of Heritage Hall in the new motherhouse and in Our Lady of Victory Convent; and planned and executed the first and second Catholic Festival of Faith exhibits for the Archdiocese of Chicago at Navy Pier and Rosemont Convention Center. She also served at St. Stanislaus Bishop & Martyr; St. Louise de Marillac, LaGrange Park; Madonna High School; and in Indiana. She continues to teach religious education at St. Alphonsus, Lemont.
SISTER MARY COLETTE KWIECZKA, a Chicago native, was a teacher, principal, sacristan, eucharistic minister, lector and community leader. She served at St. Stanislaus Bishop & Martyr, Five Holy Martyrs, St. Pancratius and in Indiana. She now is at Our Lady of Victory Convent, where she serves as the local minister.
SISTER MARY VINCENT SWIES, from St. Pancratius Parish, worked in education, senior health care, community leadership and as a lector. She served at Guardian Angel Day Care, St. Joseph Home, in Indiana and now lives in retirement at Our Lady of Victory Convent, Lemont.
50 YEARS
SISTER EMILIE MARIE LESNIAK, from Five Holy Martyrs Parish, was a principal, teacher, music minister, organist and community leader. She served at Madonna High School, St. Stanislaus Bishop & Martyr, Five Holy Martyrs and St. Patricia, Hickory Hills; was secretary of the Archdiocesan Principals Association, Council 15; was an ex officio member of the All-School Planning Committee and the first director of the Lay Associate Movement of the Franciscan Sisters of Chicago. She now is the music minister and organist at the Motherhouse, Lemont.
SISTER M. FRANCIS CLARE RADKE, from St. Pancratius Parish, worked in education, administration and community leadership. She served at Five Holy Martyrs; St. Anthony Medical Center; Franciscan Village and Mother Theresa Home, Lemont; Franciscan Sisters of Chicago Service Corporation, Homewood; Madonna High School; St. Joseph Home and Addolorata Villa, Wheeling, where she chaired the board and Illinois Catholic Health Association. She also served in Indiana and Ohio. She now is the general councilor and general treasurer, and chairman of the board of the Franciscan Sisters of Chicago Service Corporation, Lemont.
School Sisters of St. Francis of Christ the King
70 YEARS
SISTER M. VERONICA KOVAS worked in food service, farming and housekeeping. For 44 years she served at Mount Assisi Academy, Lemont, where she milked cows, fed the pigs, plowed, planted and harvested and drove a team of horses to help with the plowing and planting. She also served at Alvernia Manor Retirement Home and Mount Assisi Convent, Lemont, where she now lives.
50 YEARS
SISTER M. DAVID MARKUZ was in the food service business and did farm work. For 44 years, she cooked for the sisters at Mount Assisi Convent, where she also cared for the orchard and did lawn care, planted and tended the vegetable garden and did various maintenance chores. She still lives at Mount Assisi Convent, Lemont.
School Sisters of St. Francis
80 YEARS
SISTER NOEL HEISLER was a teacher and librarian. She served at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Glenview. She lives in Campbellsport, Wis.
75 YEARS
SISTER JANE (ESDRA) HILGER was a teacher and domestic worker. She served at St. Joseph, Wilmette; St. Mary, Buffalo Grove; and St. Peter, Skokie. She lives in Campbellsport, Wis.
SISTER IRENE (RAYMARDUS) LAIBLE was a homemaker and caregiver. She served at St. William Convent and lives in Campbellsport, Wis.
SISTER IOLA STECHER was a teacher, learning center coordinator and librarian. She served at Immaculate Conception (44th Street); St. Clara; St. Joseph, Wilmette; and St. Mary, Buffalo Grove. She lives in Milwaukee.
SISTER ANN MARIE (ANTOINE) TRIMBERGER was a teacher, resource center coordinator and paraprofessional. She served at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Glenview and Our Lady of Victory. She lives in Milwaukee.
70 YEARS
SISTER CELESTA BLACKBIRD was an educator at Holy Angels, St. Kilian and Ascension/ St. Susanna, Harvey. She lives in Campbellsport, Wis.
SISTER MARIONITA GERGEN was a teacher and parish minister who served at St. Martin. She lives in Campbellsport, Wis. Sister Antoinette Hockerts, a Chicago native, was a teacher, school administrator, translator, secretary and vocation minister. She served at Immaculate Conception (44th Street); St. Mary, Buffalo Grove; Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Glenview; and Friends of Children, Barrington. She also worked in Mexico and now lives in Campbellsport, Wis.
SISTER ROSALIE KING was a teacher, retreat minister, provincial team member and office manager. She served at St. Benedict High School and Friends of Children. She now lives in Campbellsport, Wis.
SISTER MARY ANNA STICKELMAIER was a teacher, treasurer and development worker. She also worked in a college financial aid office and in financial planning. She served at St. James, Arlington Heights, and now lives in Milwaukee, Wis.
SISTER GERMAINE WERTH was a homemaker and served at Alvernia High School Convent and St. Clara Convent. She lives in Campbellsport, Wis.
60 YEARS
SISTER JOHN ROSE ACKER was an educator and minister of care. She served at St. Joseph, Summit; St. Philomena; and Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Glenview. She serves in the Diocese of Madison and lives in Cross Plains, Wis.
SISTER ELEANOR BLAKE, a McHenry, Ill., native, was a homemaker. She served at St. Martin Convent and now works in the Diocese of Joliet and lives in Bensenville.
SISTER GLORIA FEWS, an Aurora, Ill., native was an educator, preschool director and administrative assistant. She served at Holy Angels and is now self-employed in Des Plaines.
SISTER NANCY HANSEN, a Chicago native, was an educator, health-care worker, bookkeeper, criminal justice coordinator and ministered along the U.S.-Mexican border. She served at St. Benedict High School, the Stange Company and now ministers at Casa Alexia, El Paso, Texas.
SISTER MARY BETH MINKEL, a Chicago native, served in education and school administration at St. Joseph, Wilmette; Holy Angels; Santa Maria Addolorata; St. Helen; St.Genevieve; St. Sylvester; St. Matthias; and Queen of Angels. She is a substitute teacher at St. Edward.
SISTER MARYLYN WELTER, a Chicago native, has been an educator, liturgy coordinator, director of religious education, director of RCIA, secretary, director of catechumens and pastoral associate. She served at Holy Angels; Catholic Theological Union; the Passionist community; Presentation BVM Parish; St. Mary of Celle, Berwyn; and St. Thomas Becket, Mount Prospect. She is a RCIA volunteer at St. Celestine, Elmwood Park.
50 YEARS
SISTER CAROLE CIERNIAK, a Chicago native, has been a teacher and school administrator at St. Joseph, Summit; Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Glenview; John V. Leigh School, Norridge; Notre Dame High School for Boys, Niles; and St. Joseph High School, Westchester, where she now teaches.
SISTER DONNA MARIE CIRONE, a Chicago native, is a teacher who served at Holy Angels, Holy Cross, St. Gelasius and San Miguel School Gary Comer Campus, where she now teaches.
Sisters of St. Francis of Clinton, Iowa
60 YEARS
SISTER MARIA ZEIMEN, from Ascension Parish, Oak Park, worked in education, parish ministry, congregational leadership and helped to found L’Arche Chicago, where she served as the community leader/director for five years. She now is the assistant regional coordinator of L’Arche U.S. Central.
Sisters of St. Francis Third Order Regular of Our Lady of Lourdes
50 YEARS
SISTER MARY BETH BURNS, from St. Juliana Parish, has worked in elementary and special education and as an activity specialist in gerontology. She served at Search Development Center; St. John Berchmans; Misericordia Homes; the Japanese American Service Committee; Kensington Health Care Center, Evanston; and Presbyterian Homes, Skokie, where she now serves as an activities specialist.
Sisters of St. Francis of Dubuque, Iowa
70 YEARS
SISTER ELIZABETH BRADY was a teacher and parish minister. She served at St. Mary of the Woods and is retired in Dubuque, Iowa.
SISTER BERNARDINE DILLINGER was a homemaker at Corpus Christi and St. Anne, Hazel Crest. She is retired in Dubuque, Iowa.
SISTER MARY KENNETH HEMANN worked in dietary management at Corpus Christi. She is retired in Dubuque, Iowa.
SISTER CORINNE KUTSCH taught and cared for the elderly. She served at St. Christopher, Midlothian, and St. Anne, Hazel Crest. She is retired in Dubuque, Iowa.
SISTER CATHERINE NIESS taught at St. Christopher, Midlothian, and St. John Brebeuf, Niles. She lives in retirement in Dubuque, Iowa.
SISTER JOSEPHINE SCHMITZ taught at Corpus Christi and St. Christopher, Midlothian. She is retired in Dubuque, Iowa.
60 YEARS
SISTER MARIE BOHR was a teacher and nurse. She served at Corpus Christi and Mater Christi, North Riverside. She is retired in Dubuque, Iowa.
SISTER GWEN HENNESSEY taught and did justice advocacy. She served at St. John Brebeuf, Niles and Clergy and Laity Concerned, Chicago. She is the house manager, Clare Guest House, Sioux City, Iowa.
SISTER RUTH KLEITSCH has been a social worker and teacher. She served at Corpus Christi and Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood. She now is an assisted living counselor at Systems Unlimited, Monticello, Iowa.
SISTER ELEANOR LAMBERT was a teacher and nurse. She served at Mater Christi, North Riverside, and lives in retirement in Dubuque, Iowa.
50 YEARS
SISTER CAROL ANN BERTE has been a nurse and chaplain. She served at Mater Christi, North Riverside, and Our Lady of Tepeyac. She is a chaplain at St. John Medical System, Tulsa, Okla.
SISTER CHARLOTTE ENRIGHT taught and did parish ministry and sales. She served at St. Anne, Hazel Crest, and Loyola Press. She is the lead teacher at Excel Learning Center, Morton, Miss.
SISTER KATHLEEN GRACE has been a teacher and pastoral minister. She served at St. John Brebeuf, Niles, and does pastoral and social outreach to immigrants, Sacred Heart Parish, Waterloo, Iowa.
SISTER MARY HAUBER taught music at Mater Christi, North Riverside. She is a private music instructor, Waterloo, Iowa.
SISTER THERESA JUNGERS taught and provided social services. She served at Mater Christi, North Riverside, and St. John Brebeuf, Niles. She is an enrichment/personal finance aide at Mount St. Francis Center, Dubuque, Iowa.
SISTER JANE MCGRAIN taught and did clerical work. She served at St. John Brebeuf, Niles; St. Mary of the Woods; and Mercy Boys Home. She is a switchboard operator, Mount St. Francis, Dubuque, Iowa.
SISTER JUDY SINNWELL has been a teacher and massage therapist. She served at Sacred Heart, Melrose Park and now is Excel assistant director/massage therapist, Calhoun City, Miss.
SISTER MARGARET WICK was an educator and administrator. She served at Corpus Christi and now is vice president, Sisters of St. Francis, Dubuque, Iowa.
Sisters of St. Joseph of the Third Order of St. Francis
70 YEARS
SISTER DOMINIC GOSKA, from St. Barbara Parish, was an educator at St. Stanislaus, Immaculate Conception and Our Lady of the Snows. She is retired in Bartlett.
60 YEARS
SISTER RITA MARIE MALACHINSKI, from Immaculate Conception Parish, worked in education and administration and served at St. Simeon, Bellwood, and the Bartlett Developmental Learning Center, Bartlett, where she is retired.
SISTER CECILIA ZIELEN, from St. Fidelis Parish, worked in education and administration and served at St. Simeon, Bellwood; Lourdes High School; and in Indiana. She is retired in Bartlett.
50 YEARS
SISTER DOROTHY MONIKOWSKI, from St. Hedwig Parish, worked in education, business, administration and provincial leadership. She served at Queen of the Universe; Immaculata Congregational Home and the Archdiocese of Chicago as the associate director of planning. She now works as a consultant for Mission Development Associates and lives in Bartlett.
SISTER MARY ANN WALENTOWSKI, from Immaculate Conception Parish, has worked in domestic and food services. She served at Queen of the Universe, Lourdes convent and high school, and Clare Oaks, Bartlett, where she is a housekeeper.
Society of the Holy Child Jesus
50 YEARS
SISTER MARY ALICE MINOGUE, a Chicago native, was an elementary school teacher and principal at St. Veronica; St. Anastasia, Waukegan; and St. Ignatius. She directs a Montessori preschool in a Haitian migrant worker camp in the Dominican Republic.
SISTER MARGARET SCHOLLE, from St. Paul the Apostle Parish, was an elementary school teacher and principal, did adult faith formation and was a legislative advocate for Catholic Charities USA. She served at St. Anastasia, Waukegan; St. Patrick, Wadsworth; Our Lady of Humility, Zion; and as associate director of lay ministry at Mundelein Seminary. She now is the spiritual director at St. Paul the Apostle, Gurnee, and teaches theological reflection for the Chicago archdiocesan Lay Ministry Formation program.
Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth
80 YEARS
SISTER BERNADETTE PASEK, from St. John the Baptist Parish, Harvey, worked in health care as a pediatric nurse. She served at St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital and is retired in Des Plaines.
SISTER EDITH WILLOW, from St. Hyacinth Parish, was an educator at St. Valentine, Cicero; St. Michael High School; Holy Family Academy High School; and De Lourdes College in Des Plaines, where she is retired.
75 YEARS
SISTER IGNATIUS REMIAN, from St. Hyacinth Parish, worked in health care at St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital; Holy Family Hospital, Des Plaines; and in Texas. She is retired in Des Plaines.
60 YEARS
SISTER ELIZABETH TREMBCZYNSKI, from St. Andrew the Apostle Parish, Calumet City, has worked in health care at Holy Family Hospital, Des Plaines; St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital; and Holy Family Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Des Plaines, where she is the administrator of Casa San Carlos Retirement Home.
SISTER BERNADINE WACHOWIAK, from St. Hedwig Parish, has been an educator and administrator who served at St. Hyacinth; St. Blase, Argo; St. Michael the Archangel; St. Emily, Mount Prospect; St. Josaphat; Immaculate Heart of Mary; St. Hedwig and St. Ladislaus. She now is the director of religious education at St. Ladislaus.
SISTER ROSEMARIE MACHALSKI, from St. Hedwig Parish, has worked in education, administration and congregational leadership. She served at St. Hyacinth; St. Joseph Mission School; St. Camillus; St. Ladislaus; St. Andrew the Apostle, Calumet City; St. Michael the Archangel; Our Lady of Hope, Rosemont; Nazarethville, Des Plaines; and as provincial treasurer. She now serves as a part-time benefits manager for her congregation.
SISTER ANELLA KIPA, from St. Hyacinth Parish, has worked in education and health care. She served at Holy Trinity; Immaculate Heart of Mary; in Texas; and at Holy Family Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Des Plaines, where she now works.
SISTER PATRICIA ANN KOSCHALKE, from St. Josaphat Parish, has worked in education and health care. She served at St. Andrew the Apostle, Calumet City; St. Michael High School; Holy Family Academy High School; and St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital; and was the C.E.O. Holy Family Hospital, Des Plaines. She now is the chairperson of Resurrection Health Care Sponsorship Board.
SISTER PANCRATIA ZUCZEK, from St. Adalbert Parish, worked in health care and served at St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital; Holy Family Hospital and Holy Family Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Des Plaines; and in New Mexico and Texas. She is retired in Des Plaines.
SISTER PHYLLIS SIEDLECKA, from St. Adalbert Parish, was an educator at Holy Trinity; Holy Rosary; St. Hedwig; Immaculate Heart of Mary; Assumption BVM; St. Susanna, Harvey; St. Emily, Mount Prospect; St. Michael the Archangel; St. Ladislaus; St. Andrew the Apostle, Calumet City; St. Blase, Argo; and in Indiana and Texas. She now does convent ministry in Des Plaines.
25 YEARS
SISTER NATANAELA SWIENCONEK is a registered nurse at St. Mary and Elizabeth Hospital.
Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters
60 YEARS
SISTER MARIE ANGELA RISI was a teacher, pastoral worker and congregational leader. She served at schools in Northbrook and Techny; at St. Therese Hospital, Waukegan, in the Staff/ER program for unwed mothers; and in Mississippi, Rome and Australia. She is assistant local leader at the Convent of the Holy Spirit, Glenview, and assists in the province office.
SISTER ROSE (KATHRYN) MARTIN, from Our Lady of the Gardens Parish, was a nurse, then nurse practitioner, health consultant, administrator and provincial leader who received the Father Augustus Tolton Award. She is the first black American Holy Spirit Missionary Sister and served as consultant for the Head Start program, Waukegan, at the Chicago Youth Center, and in New York, Mississippi and Ghana. She was director of health services for the Jubilee Schools in Memphis, Tenn., and now works for the Diocese of Memphis.
Oblate Sisters of Jesus the Priest
50 YEARS
SISTER ROSA SANDOVAL has worked in housekeeping and food service at University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary and Niles College, Niles and now is a secretary at Holy Name Cathedral rectory.
25 YEARS
SISTER MANUELA RODRIGUEZ has been a congregational leader and worked as a housekeeper and in food service. She now serves as her community’s superior and works at Holy Name Cathedral’s rectory.
Congregation of St. Joseph
50 YEARS
SISTER THERESE MIDDENDORF, a Chicago native from St. Francis Xavier Parish, La- Grange, was an educator and administrator. She served at St. Mary, Riverside; Divine Infant, Westchester; and St. Barbara, Brookfield. She now is the academic dean at Nazareth Academy, LaGrange Park.
SISTER MARY LOU PLEITNER, from Our Lady of Mount Caramel, Melrose Park, was a teacher, administrative assistant and archivist. She served at St. Anthony for 23 years; St. Francis Xavier, St. Joseph Military Academy and Alexine Learning Center, all in LaGrange; St. Hugh, Lyons; St. John Fisher; St. Nicholas, Evanston for 14 years; and St. Barbara, Brookfield, where she has been working as an administrative assistant for the past eight years while serving at her community’s La Grange Park CSJ Center Archives.
Sisters of the Living Word
70 YEARS
SISTER CHARLENE BALLER, a Chicago native, worked as a teacher, principal, pastoral staff member and secretary. She served at St. Theresa, Palatine; St. Isaac Jogues, Niles; St. Aloysius; Holy Trinity, Westmont; St. Francis; Holy Trinity; and St. Felicitas; Oakton Community College, Des Plaines; Children of Peace (Holy Trinity Campus); and in Missouri, Michigan and Iowa. She now is a volunteer minister at an Arlington Heights nursing home and puppy walker.
SISTER ROSANNE STUMP worked as a teacher, principal, financial aid administrator, GED instructor, secretary and receptionist. She served at St. Raphael; Holy Trinity, Westmont; St. Gregory High School; Academy of Our Lady; Montay College; College of Lake County; Evanston Township High School; Oakton Community College, Park Ridge; and in Louisiana. She now is an archivist assistant at the Living Word Center, Arlington Heights.
60 YEARS
SISTER COLETTE FAHRNER, from St. Mary of the Woods Parish, was a teacher, religious education consultant and director of religious education, director of Earth spirituality, lay ecclesial minister and social minister, outreach teacher and coordinator for the Glenmary Home Missioners. She served at St. Martha, Morton Grove; St. Ita; St. Peter, Antioch; Resurrection Center, Woodstock; and in Michigan, Louisiana, Mississippi and Iowa. She now is a member of the new membership team, Living Word Center, Arlington Heights.
SISTER MARY IMELDA FISCHER was a teacher, librarian, medical records clerk and secretary. She served at Holy Trinity, Westmont; St. Boniface, Morton Grove; and in Michigan, Minnesota, Louisiana, and Missouri. She now is a volunteer at the Sisters of the Living Word Center, Arlington Heights, where she also served in various clerical posts.
50 YEARS
SISTER BARBARA MASS, a Chicago native from St. James Parish, Arlington Heights, was a teacher, school administrator and member of her community’s leadership team, and she did formation work. She served at St. Theresa and Harper College, Palatine; Sisters of Christian Charity Motherhouse and Mallinkrodt College, Wilmette; Josephinium High School; St. Martha, Morton Grove; St. Gregory High School; Notre Dame High School, Niles; and Resurrection High School. She now is an administrator at Living Word Center, Arlington Heights.
Sisters of Charity BVM
85 YEARS
SISTER ROBERDETTE BURNS, from Queen of Angels Parish, was an educator and administrator. She served for 44 years at Clarke College in Iowa and did volunteer work in California. She is retired at the Caritas Center, Dubuque, Iowa.
80 YEARS
SISTER VERONICA (ITA) GRENNAN was an educator and pastoral minister at St. Thomas of Canterbury; in Berwyn, Cicero and Rock Island, Ill.; and in Iowa, Mississippi, Oregon and Washington. She is retired at Marian Hall, Dubuque, Iowa.
SISTER VINCENTIA KAEFERSTEIN was an educator, administrator and volunteer mentor. She served at St. Ferdinand, in Maywood and in Wyoming and Iowa. She is retired at Marian Hall, Dubuque, Iowa.
75 YEARS
SISTER (ST.) AIMEE O’NEILL was a teacher, administrator, reading specialist, day care director and volunteer. She served at Our Lady of Angels, Annunciation and in Kansas, Arizona and California. She is retired at Caritas Center, Dubuque, Iowa.
SISTER MARY JAMES ORTH was an educator, administrator and volunteer. She served at Carmel High School, Mundelein, and in Tennessee, Iowa and California. She is retired at Marian Hall, Dubuque, Iowa.
70 YEARS
SISTER LORRAINE MARIE BALLER, from St. Gregory Parish, was an educator and administrator and served at Our Lady of Angels; Cathedral High School; St. Gilbert, Grayslake; and in Missouri and California. She is retired at Marian Hall, Dubuque, Iowa. Sister Gracita Daly was an educator, administrator and parish minister. She served at Blessed Sacrament; Holy Family; St. Odilo, Berwyn; and in Nebraska, New York, Missouri, Indiana and Iowa where she is retired at Marian Hall, Dubuque.
SISTER LOU MARIE FIDELER was an educator, administrator, pastoral minister and volunteer. She served at St. Charles, St. Eugene, and St. Eulalia, Maywood, and in New York and Iowa where she is retired at her community’s motherhouse.
SISTER BERNADITA FINNEGAN is a Chicago native whose home parish was Resurrection. She devoted her religious life to work as an educator and administrator and served at Our Lady Help of Christians, St. Charles Borromeo, St. Eugene, St. Jerome and in Missouri and Iowa where she is retired at Caritas Center, Dubuque.
SISTER ANITA THERESE HAYES was an educator, administrator, in community leadership and a volunteer. She served at Blessed Sacrament and in South Dakota and Iowa, where she is an archivist and volunteer at the BVM Center, Mount Carmel, Dubuque.
SISTER MONICA M. (ST. REGINALD) LOWRY was an educator and administrator. She served at St. Dominic School and in California, Montana, Washington and Iowa, where she is retired at Caritas Center, Dubuque.
SISTER (ST.) GERALDINE MOORMAN was an educator, administrator and pastoral minister. She served at St. Vincent; Our Lady of Angels; Annunciation; St. Bartholomew; St. Gilbert, Grayslake; and in New York. She is retired at Caritas Center, Dubuque, Iowa.
SISTER M. JEANINE MORAN was an educator and administrator. She served at Our Lady of Angels and St. Mary High School, was director of Lighthouse for the Blind and ministered at Misericordia/Heart of Mercy Village and in Arizona, California, Missouri and Iowa, where she is retired at Caritas Center, Dubuque.
SISTER CONCETTA NABA was an educator and nurse’s aide. She served at St. Ferdinand; St. Jerome; St. Gilbert, Grayslake; St. Eulalia, Maywood; and in Arizona and Iowa, where she is retired at her community’s motherhouse, Dubuque.
SISTER DOLORES (WILMETTA) O’DWYER was an educator and administrator who served at St. Odilo, Berwyn, and in Washington, Oregon and California, where she is retired in Glendale.
SISTER ISABELLA TOHER was an educator, administrator, pastoral minister and volunteer. She served at Presentation and St. Vincent; in Pontiac, Lincoln, East Moline and Galesburg, Ill.; and in Wisconsin, Missouri, California and Iowa, where she is retired at Marian Hall, Dubuque.
60 YEARS
SISTER MARY ADELE (ADELISA) APPLEBY was an educator, administrator and chaplain. She served at St. Gertrude and in California, Nebraska, Missouri and Wyoming. She is retired at Marian Hall, Dubuque.
SISTER JEAN MARIE BRADY was an educator, administrator and pastoral minister. She served at Blessed Sacrament; Holy Name Cathedral; St. Odilo, Berwyn; and in Iowa, where she worked in several towns and cities and was the director and coordinator for the Office of Educational Services, Archdiocese of Dubuque. She is retired in Iowa City.
SISTER LYDIA BUNTEMEYER was an educator and a volunteer. She served at St. Tarcissus; St. Odilo, Berwyn; in Rock Island and East Moline, Ill.; and in Tennessee, Oregon and Iowa, where she is retired at her community’s motherhouse.
SISTER MARY KAY (MEDA) DUM was an educator and administrator. She served at St. Gertrude and in California, Oklahoma, Washington and Iowa, where she is retired in Dubuque.
SISTER ALICE MARIE (ST. GERARD) DUNPHY, from Our Lady Help of Christians Parish, was an educator, administrator and volunteer. She served at St. Dominic and Our Lady of Lourdes and in California, Montana and Nevada. She is retired at Marian Hall, Dubuque, Iowa.
SISTER HELEN (CLARE ANN) EMERSON, a Chicago native from Ascension Parish, Oak Park, was an educator and pastoral minister. She served at Holy Cross; St. Tarcissus; St. James, Maywood; Our Lady of the Mount, Cicero; in Pontiac and Bloomington, Ill.; and in Iowa, Tennessee, Georgia and Iowa, where she is retired at the motherhouse in Dubuque.
SISTER MARIE (DAVID THERESE) GREANEY, from St. Ferdinand Parish, was an educator, pastoral minister and associate, chaplain and health care resource coordinator for the Great Lakes region. She served at Our Lady of Lourdes; St. Eugene; St. Eulalia, Maywood; Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge; Holy Family Hospital, Des Plaines; and Palos Community Hospital, Palos Heights. She is retired in Palos Park.
SISTER JANE (JANETTE) HASLWANTER, from St. Benedict Parish, was an educator, administrator, parish minister and director of religious education. She served at St. Callistus, St. Ferdinand and Mundelein College, in Schaumburg, Orland Park, Roselle and Mokena, Ill.; and in Wisconsin and Iowa, where she is retired at Marian Hall, Dubuque.
SISTER JOSETTE KELLY was an educator, administrator and pastoral minister. She taught music at St. Cornelius, St. Bridget and Mundelein College and served in Iowa, Washington, Utah and Colorado, where she is retired in Boulder.
SISTER ELIZA KENNEY was a music educator at Mundelein College and Loyola University Chicago and in Minnesota. She is a part-time curator at Mount Carmel Motherhouse, Dubuque, Iowa.
SISTER PATRICIA (ST. JULIANNA) KERZ, from St. Hilary Parish, was an educator, administrator, director of religious education and parish minister. She served at St. Gertrude, Holy Name School and Blessed Sacrament; in Antioch, Rock Island and East Moline, Ill.: and in Iowa and Nebraska. She is retired in Chicago.
SISTER MARY GENE (ANTONILLA) KINNEY has been an educator, counselor and fine arts commissioner. She did music therapy at Misericordia North and for more than 30 years at Intercommunity Program for Alcoholism. She also served in Iowa, Montana, California, Washington, and is an addictions counselor at Education and Intervention Inc., River Forest.
SISTER ANNE MARIE (ST. BRIDGET) MULLEN devoted her religious life to work as an educator, administrator, counselor and day care center executive director. She served at Our Lady of Lourdes, Quigley Preparatory Seminary, Mount Carmel High School, St. Benedict High School and in Colorado, Montana, Iowa, California, Nebraska and Virginia. She is retired in Chicago.
SISTER MARY K. (JEAN CATHERINE) O’BRIEN, from Our Lady of the Angels Parish, was an educator, administrator and volunteer. She served at St. Dorothy and St. Ferdinand; in Grayslake, Wilmette and Mundelein; and also in Iowa and New York. She is retired in Mundelein.
SISTER JANE (MARCELLO) REEHORST was an educator, RCIA coordinator and pastoral minister. She served at Our Lady Help of Christians and in California, Missouri, Colorado and Iowa, where she is retired.
SISTER JOANNA RETTENMEIER was an educator, administrator, congregational leader and volunteer. She served at Blessed Sacrament, Holy Cross and in Washington, Tennessee and Iowa, where she is retired at her community’s motherhouse, Dubuque. Sister Jacquelyn (Vianney) Rice was an educator, administrator, parish minister, congregational leader and director of religious education. She served at St. Dorothy; Holy Trinity; St. Eulalia, Maywood; St. Edmund, Oak Park; St. Ita; St. Clement; and in Hometown, Ill. She is a part-time volunteer in Chicago.
SISTER MARY TERESE (LUMINA) RINK was an educator, coordinator and administrator. She served at Immaculata High School, Delano High School, Froebel High School, Dunbar High School and was the coordinator for the Disabled Children’s Program: Division of Services for Crippled Children and case manager, University of Illinois Medical Center. She is retired at her community’s motherhouse, Dubuque, Iowa.
SISTER HELEN (ST. GEORGE) THOMPSON has been an educator, administrator, consultant and volunteer. She served at St. Gertrude and Mundelein College and in Iowa and California, where she lives in Berkeley and does volunteer work.
SISTER MARY (CHESTER) WOJNICKI, from St. Cornelius Parish, was an educator and administrator. She served at Holy Family, St. Gertrude, Mundelein College, Loyola University Chicago and in Montana. She is retired at Marian Hall, Dubuque, Iowa.
SISTER MARY ELLEN (ELLENMAE) ZIMMERMAN was an educator, administrator, parish minister, secretary and associate director of religious education. She served at Annunciation; Lake Shore Catholic Academy, Mundelein; St. James; St. Mary of Vernon, Indian Creek; in Antioch, Ill.; and in California and Missouri. She is retired in Dubuque, Iowa.
50 YEARS
SISTER MARY B. (BRENAN) BRESLIN, from St. Ethelreda Parish, has been an administrator and business manager. She served at Mundelein College in various capacities and at Native American Educational Services College and she currently is the vice president of the Higher Learning Commission, North Central Association, Chicago.
SISTER THERESA (MARTIN JEROME) CALUORI has been an educator, pastoral minister and congregational leader. She served at Holy Family and in California, Iowa, Montana and Oregon, where she lives in Tigard.
SISTER MAUREEN PATRICE FURY has been an educator, administrator and pastoral minister. She served at St. Mary High School, Mundelein College and in Missouri and Iowa, where she is the pastoral minister/chaplain at Mercy Hospital, Dubuque.
SISTER JOAN (RAMONE MARY) LINGEN, a Chicago native from Most Holy Redeemer Parish, Evergreen Park, has been an educator and administrator. She served at St. Vincent and in Iowa, where she is provost/vice president for academic affairs, Clarke College, Dubuque.
SISTER YVONNE (ANGELA) MATTIOLI, an Oak Park native from Santa Maria Addolorata Parish, has been an educator, administrator, guidance counselor, mental health therapist and pastoral minister. She served at Our Lady of Lourdes; Holy Family; St. Jerome; Immmaculata High School.; Queen of Peace High School, Burbank; Prince of Peace, Lake Villa; and in other Illinois towns. She also served in campus/youth ministry and as youth religious education consultant for the Chicago Archdiocese Center of CCD. She ministers in pastoral care at Mount Carmel, Dubuque, Iowa.
SISTER JOELLEN MCCARTHY has been an educator, administrator, parish minister and congregational leader and done formation work. She was the director of associates/outreach to the elderly, served in the BVM Neighbors program and ministered at St. Thomas of Canterbury and in California, New York and Nicaragua. She serves as office coordinator at 8th Day Center, Chicago.
SISTER M. COLLEEN (ROSE MAUREEN) MCGINNITY has been an educator, administrator, nurse, parish minister and director of religious education. She served at St. Stanislaus Kostka; in Oak Park and East Moline, Ill.; and in New York, Iowa and Louisiana. She is the director of pastoral ministry, San Antonio Parish, Port Charlotte, Fla.
SISTER PEGGY (TIMOTHY MAURA) NOLAN has been an educator, administrator, congregational leader and pastoral minister. She served her congregation in Chicago for eight years, and she served in Minnesota, Ecuador and Iowa where she was vice president of her BVM congregation and is a development office volunteer at Mount Carmel, Dubuque.
SISTER DOLORES PEPPARD, a Chicago native from Most Holy Redeemer Parish, Evergreen Park, has been an educator, administrator, director of religious education and pastoral minister. She served at Carmel High School, Mundelein; St. Michael, Orland Park; Holy Cross, Deerfield; and in Nebraska. She is a pastoral associate at St. Raymond de Penafort, Mount Prospect.
SISTER JOYCE ROHLIK has been an educator and pastoral minister. She served at St. Odilio, Berwyn; St. Dorothy; St. Mary High School; Providence/St. Mel; in Oak Park and in Florida, where she is a diocesan annulment advocate for the Diocese of Orlando.
25 YEARS
SISTER LUANN BROWN has worked as a special education teacher. She served at Holy Trinity School and in Missouri and Ecuador, where she works in Quito.
Little Company of Mary
60 YEARS
SISTER MARGARET CHRISTINA HOBAN, a native of Ireland, is vice president for community services of Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care Centers in Evergreen Park.
Sisters of Mercy
80 YEARS
SISTER MARY LOURDINE COOKE, from St. Joachim Parish, was a teacher and administrator and offered pastoral care. She served at Mercy High School, St. Patrick Academy, St. Xavier College (now University), St. Rose, Mount Carmel, Resurrection, St. Justin, St. Paul and in Milwaukee, Wis. She is retired and does ministry of prayer at Mercy Convent.
75 YEARS
SISTER BENEDICTA MCCORRY was a teacher, administrator and provincial leader. She served at Mount Carmel, St. Finbarr, St. Joachim, St. Justin, with the Sisters of Mercy Chicago Regional Community and in Wisconsin. She lives in retirement and does prayer ministry at Provena McAuley Manor, Aurora, Ill..
SISTER MARY RALPH ORLINSKI, a Chicago native, taught at St. Catherine-St. Lucy, Oak Park ; St. James; St. Stephen; St. Joseph, Libertyville; St. Lucy; Precious Blood; St. Finbarr; Resurrection; Our Lady of Mount Carmel and in Elgin. She now does prayer ministry and is retired at McAuley Convent, Aurora, Ill.
60 YEARS
SISTER LOIS GRAVER, a Chicago native from Queen of Martyrs Parish, Evergreen Park, was a computer programmer, teacher and treasurer of her Chicago regional community. She served at Continental Bank, St. Xavier College (now University), Siena High School and St. Monica. She is retired and does prayer ministry at McAuley East Residence.
SISTER NADINE HARGADON, from Precious Blood Parish, was a teacher, educational administrator, community leader and pastoral associate. She served at McAuley Convent and Provena McAuley Manor, Aurora; St. Martin de Porres; St. Charles Lwanga; St. Anne; St. Malachy; St. Paul of the Cross, Park Ridge; and St. Patrick Academy. She is retired but does volunteer work at Institute of Women Today, Chicago.
SISTER COLETTE JOLIE, a Chicago native from St. Paul of the Cross Parish, Park Ridge, has been a teacher, educational administrator and community leader and did formation work. She served at Siena High School, St. Patrick Academy, McAuley High School and for her community’s novitiate. She now is the president of the board of Austin Career Education Center.
SISTER ANITA NEW was a teacher and musician. She served at St. Catherine of Siena, St. Lucy, Resurrection, St. Gabriel, Holy Rosary, St. Anne, St. Joachim and in Wisconsin, where she is retired and does prayer ministry.
SISTER MARY PAULETTE O’CONNELL, from St. Gertrude Parish, was a nurse and administrator and taught nursing. She served at Misericordia Home, Mercy Hospital and in Iowa and Wisconsin. She now is a care volunteer at Misericordia Home.
SISTER JEAN SCHULTE, from St. Celestine, Elmwood Park, was a teacher, educational administrator, religious educator and pastoral worker. She served at St. Celestine, Elmwood Park; St. Raymond, Mount Prospect; St. Joseph, Wheeling; St. Emeric, Country Club Hills; St. Joachim; and in Iowa. She is retired and does ministry of prayer and cancer survivor support.
50 YEARS
SISTER PEG BARRETT, a Chicago native from St. Catherine of Siena Parish, Oak Park. Has worked in education, religious education, housing, community leadership and pastoral care. She served at St. Charles Lwanga; St. Bernardine; St. Catherine of Siena; Precious Blood; St. Cecilia; and St. Joseph, Libertyville; she was a religious consultant at the Archdiocese of Chicago School Board and with the Sisters of Mercy Chicago Regional Community; and she served in Bensenville and Aurora, Ill., where she is the director of pastoral care at Provena McAuley Manor.
SISTER JOY CLOUGH, a Chicago native from St. Terrence, Alsip, has been a teacher, administrator and writer. She served as the director of communications for the Archdiocese of Chicago; at St. Xavier University, Unity High School, Siena High School, St. Malachy and Queen of Martyrs, Evergreen Park; and was president of her regional community. She is the author of histories of Mercy Hospital and St. Xavier University and serves as the special assistant, Office for Mission and Heritage, at the university.
SISTER KAREN DONAHUE, a Chicago native from St. Mary Parish, Des Plaines, worked in teaching, communications, justice advocacy and community leadership. She served at the 8th Day Center; Misericordia North; Westside Network; Unity High School; Mother McAuley High School; St. Catherine of Siena, Oak Park; St. Cecilia; Hesed House; for the Sisters of Mercy Chicago Regional Community; and in Michigan. She is a member of the West/Midwest Community Justice team and lives in Detroit.
SISTER MARY FINNEGAN, a Chicago native from St. Catherine/St. Lucy Parish, Oak Park, was a teacher and administrator. She served at St. Angela; St. Helena; St. Joachim; St. Catherine; St. Malachy and St. Gabriel. She is the assistant principal at St. Mary of the Lake School.
SISTER ANN FLANAGAN, an Evergreen Park native from St. Leo Parish, has worked in health care, administration and Chicago Regional Community leadership and development. She served as vice president of the Sisters of Mercy Chicago Regional Community, at Mercy Hospital and at St. Xavier University, where she serves as the assistant director of development.
SISTER MARIE SHAWN GRASSBERGER was a teacher and administrator at St. John Berchmans; St. Pius X, Stickney; Resurrection; St. Stephen; Queen of Martyrs, Evergreen Park; Precious Blood; and in Sycamore, Ill. She is a volunteer archivist for the Sisters of Mercy West/Midwest Community in the Chicago Office.
SISTER NANCY PONZI taught and did volunteer work. She served at St. Anthony; Queen of Martyrs, Evergreen Park; St. Ita; in Streator, Ill.; and in Iowa. She lives in retirement at Mercy Convent and does prayer ministry.
25 YEARS
SISTER GENEMARIE BEEGAN, from Our Lady Gate of Heaven Parish, has taught and done graphic design and development. She served as an artist for her community and in California. She now does graphic design and development for Misericordia Home.
Little Sisters of the Poor
60 YEARS
SISTER MARGUERITE DE MARIE AUXILIATRICE KEMP has cared for the elderly poor and was an administrator and congregational leader. She served as provincial of the Chicago Province for 13 years and now works in administration at St. Joseph’s Home for the Elderly, Palatine.
50 YEARS
SISTER MARY TIMOTHY DE ST. JOHN BAPTISTE FLAHERTY has been an administrator and certified dietary manager. She now works as director of dietary, St. Joseph’s Home for the Elderly, Palatine.
25 YEARS
SISTER DIANE THERESE OF THE CROSS SHELBY is a nurse and administrator. She serves as director of nursing and vocation coordinator, St. Joseph’s Home for the Elderly, Palatine.
SISTER THERESE MARIE DE LA CROIX MINERICH, a Chicago native, has cared for the elderly poor, been an administrator and done formation work. She serves as the councilor provincial for the Province of Chicago at St. Joseph’s Home for the Elderly, Palatine.
Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ
80 YEARS
SISTER CARMELINE PARISI, a Chicago native, cared for children and the elderly. She served at Angel Guardian Orphanage; in Belleville, Ill.; and in Indiana, Minnesota and Thailand. She now lives in retirement at the Catherine Kasper Home, Donaldson, Ind.
75 YEARS
SISTER JOHNILDA MANNHARD worked in education, childcare and home health care and as a dietary supervisor. She served at Angel Guardian Orphanage, St. Henry and St. Cornelius Convent; in Springfield, Belleville, Edwardsville, Germantown and Wendelin, Ill.; and in Indiana and Wisconsin. She continues her community service at Catherine’s Cottage, Donaldson, Ind.
60 YEARS
SISTER JOAN FISHER, a Chicago native, worked in education, administration, congregational leadership and created advocacy programs for the poor. She served at Angel Guardian Orphanage and St. Cornelius Parish; in Trenton and Cairo, Ill.; and in Indiana. She is one of the founders of Sojourner Trust House, Gary, Ind., and now does community service at Catherine’s Cottage, Donaldson, Ind.
SISTER MAGDALEN HELLMANN served in childcare, counseling, management and work as a sacristan. She ministered at Angel Guardian Home and other archdiocesan locations, in Bellville, Ill., and Indiana. She now is a volunteer at Nazareth Home, East Chicago, Ind., where she helps babies in crisis.
Poor Clares
25 YEARS
SISTER MIRIAM DUNCAN entered the Poor Clare’s monastery in New Mexico and came to help refound the Poor Clare life in the Archdiocese of Chicago. She now serves her Palos Park cloistered community as a sacristan, mistress of novices, librarian, seamstress, cook and gardener, among other duties.
Sisters of Divine Providence
70 YEARS
SISTER ROSEMARY MICKA was an educator at Divine Providence, Westchester; and in Madison, Meppen, Brussels, Venice and Granite City, Ill.; and in Missouri. She does prayer ministry at St. Clare’s Villa, Alton, Ill.
50 YEARS
SISTER HILARY (CAROLYN) HOOKS was a teacher, music minister and liturgist. She worked at Divine Providence, Westchester; in Granite City, Brussels and Godfrey, Ill.; and in Missouri, Texas and Pennsylvania, where she is preparing to teach English as a second language to immigrants in Pittsburgh.
Sisters of the Resurrection
60 YEARS
SISTER ROSEMARY GIRA, from St. Hyacinth Basilica Parish, taught first grade for 51 years and served at St. Mary of the Angels; St. Casimir; Queen of the Rosary, Elk Grove Village; and in Indiana, Nebraska and Florida. She now lives in retirement in Chicago.
SISTER MARY VIRGINIA TASNY was a teacher and administrator. She was a pilot teacher for the archdiocese and served at St. Casimir; St. Mary of the Angels; Queen of the Rosary, Elk Grove Village; and in Indiana and North Dakota. She now lives in retirement in Chicago.
25 YEARS
SISTER MARIA GORETTI PIASECKA has been a catechist and early childhood educator. She is a volunteer at Resurrection Medical Center Day Care Center, in Spiritual Services and also is a student.
Society of the Sacred Heart
60 YEARS
SISTER PAMELA HICKEY, an Evanston native, has worked in high school education and counseling, parish service programs and school administration in Sacred Heart schools in Chicago and Lake Forest, Jospehinum, Providence-St. Mel, Catholic Charities and St. Joan of Arc School’s religious education program. She is doing prayer ministry and working in an adult literacy program in Chicago.
50 YEARS
SISTER JUDITH CAGNEY, an Evanston native, worked in education, school administration, finance, provincial leadership and social justice ministries. She served as president and in other capacities at Barat College, Lake Forest; Hardey Preparatory School for Boys; as provincial team member, Chicago Province of the Society of the Sacred Heart; and in Missouri. She now is the area director for the Society of the Sacred Heart, New York.
Servite Sisters
50 YEARS
SISTER ANN MARIE CAPORALE, from Annunciata Parish, was a teacher, pastoral minister, massage therapist, hospice chaplain and bereavement coordinator. She served at St. Domitilla, Hillside; Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica; St. Francis de Sales Senior Center and St. Francis Hospital, Blue Island. She now works with Annunciata Parish as a sacristan, member of the liturgy committee, resurrection choir and as an assistant in bereavement ministry
