Remembrance of the Life of Sister Helen Ann Reynolds SL

By Loretto Community | August 21, 2014
A woman with short grey hair, wearing a greenish blue sweater smiling for a headshot picture while tilting her head to her left.

Sister Helen Ann was born May 17, 1918, in Rockford, Ill. She was one of four daughters and two sons of Marie Ellen (Hennessey) and Thomas J. Reynolds. She entered the Sisters of Loretto from St. Peter Parish, Rockford, in 1936. Sister Helen Ann received the habit and her religious name on April 25, 1937, pronounced her first vows on April 25, 1939 and made her final vows on Aug. 15, 1942.

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