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Loretto Community
Aug. 25, 1921 — Dec. 30, 2016 Sister Carolyn Ann, who was baptized Anna Sophia, was a daughter of Kentucky who spent almost her entire adult life in the western…
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Nov. 24, 1928 —Nov. 28, 2016 Sister Anne Michelle LaMarre was born into a devout Catholic family in Kankakee, Ill. As Monica Margaret LaMarre, she grew up with two brothers and…
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May 14, 1924 — Dec. 2, 2016 Of Jen Wessler’s early years we have little information. We do know from her co-membership application, completed in 1980, that she was born…
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By Lillian Moskeland At the close of this past summer, the Loretto-Ghana Sister Community Committee — Marie Ego, Pauline Albin, Elise André, Betsy Clute and Lillian Moskeland — and the…
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Sept. 7, 1926 — Nov. 17, 2016 Jane Clark was born in Lebanon, Ky., a descendant of two of Kentucky’s earliest Catholic families. Her father was John Dennis Clark of…
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July 7, 1920 – Nov. 13, 2016 Alma Marcella Schuler was a quiet, gentle woman often introduced in Loretto circles as “the younger sister of the Schuler twins.” Alma, known…
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By Cecily Jones Could the desire of some Loretto Community members for a natural (“green”) burial in the Motherhouse woods develop into a new aspect of Loretto’s mission of reaching…
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April 10, 1925 — Oct. 8, 2016 Sister Barbara Agnew was born in Dayton, Ohio, the older of two children of Walter Ignatius and Marie Katherine Weiser Agnew. She grew…
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Dec. 30, 1924 — Sept. 27, 2016 Sister Lois Zeis was born in St. Louis at the very end of 1924; early in the new year she was baptized Irene…
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Sept. 18, 1935 — Aug. 31, 2016 Franciscan Sister Severin Duehren was drawn into Loretto Co-membership in 1985 by her eighteen-year friendship with Loretto Sister Rose Annette Liddell, with whom…
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April 16, 1921 – Aug. 26, 2016 Rosalia Duran Guevara, who died in Albuquerque, N.M., Aug. 26, 2016, was a Loretto Co-member for 21 years and a Sister of Loretto…
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