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In 1961, Sister Mildred was one of four Canadian SSND pioneers to open the mission in Calacoto, La Paz, Bolivia, where for nine years she was teacher and administrator in schools there. Sister Mildred possessed a pioneer spirit, readily accepting new challenges in South America and in her home country.
For four weeks in 1939, her mother studied sewing while Dorothy played with her cousin and toured Germany with various relatives. At the end of this time, she and her mother boarded a ship for Kobenhavn to make their way back to the US, but after a day and a half it returned to Germany, because war had broken out.
Sister Marylita combined her extensive knowledge with good humor. Her love of teaching math and science attracted students to emulate her. She had a calm and quiet courage when the situation called for it and she stood for truth in the face of controversy. Later in her work she became a Director of Religious Education and participated in other forms of pastoral education. She authored a published article that spoke of “empowering the laity to take its rightful role” in the church.
In death, we say our ultimate human yes to God. Trusting in God’s power to bring us to the fullness of life, we conclude our earthly life with an act of worship: in the action of death we proclaim God as God, and ourselves as God’s creatures. We are called by God and sent by the community; we go in joy!
- You Are Sent, Constitution of the School Sisters of Notre Dame
