In Memoriam

Soft spoken, petite and full of energy, Sister Xavier was especially talented in art and music. She was “a big sister” to the youngest of the Linz family, Sister Theresa Mary, SSND. Speaking of her vocation, Sister Xavier said, “I have tried to keep the rules and to progress toward my ideal of a good religious.”

Sister Dolores was a teacher and an excellent administrator.  Her warm smile and sense of humor endeared her to others. She taught at the St. Mark School, and St. Mary School, and spent many years at NDP, NDMU and the Madonna School in Florida. Dolores was always a friendly face and an welcoming greeter at Villa Assumpta events.

Kathleen was friendly and outgoing. She was a teacher, then principal at schools in Washington DC, Greenville NC and Philadelphia. As a principal, she often had a dog in her office to the delight of the students.

Sister Kitty was a steadfast teacher, administrator, and community leader, who devoted her life practicing the teachings of Christ in all she did.

Sister Joan spent 23 years, 1957 to 1980, in Puerto Rico at two missions, Notre Dame High School, Caguas, and the Academy of Perpetual Help in Miramar. She was a superb English and Latin teacher.

Sister Marie Denise taught and was in Pastoral Ministery at the St. Francis of Assisi Parish in New Britain, Connecticut from 1970 until 2016. She loved the areas nature and beauty. She planned and directed the Adopted Grandparents Program at Brittany Farms Rest Home. Marie Denise also loved her Irish heritage and visited her father’s relatives in Ireland many times; she felt great happiness in being with them. 

Sister Rosemary was a fiercely independent, no nonsense woman, Because she loved and enjoyed life, Rosemary believed that you should “get on with it” and live your life.

Serving 52 unbroken years of service in schools as teacher, principal, coordinator of pre-K/primary grades, and Assistant Superintendent of Schools in five states - Maryland, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Florida, Corinne was loved and appreciated wherever she was.

In 1978 she moved to Thunder Bay, where she took an addiction counseling course which qualified her as an addiction counselor at St. Joseph Treatment Centre in North Bay.