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Remembrance of the Life of Jeannine Swift CoL

By Loretto Community / December 13, 2015 /

A woman with brown curly hair and big glasses smiling for a picture inside wearing a red shirt with a black graphic face.

Jeannine Swift, who has been a Loretto member for 62 continuous years, began life as Jeanne Carolyn, the daughter of William Harold and Loretta Knischel Swift. They and their seven children…

Remembrance of the Life of Fred Harris CoL

By Loretto Community / December 12, 2015 /

A man wearing glasses and a grey suit with a striped tie smiling for a portrait picture.

Fred Harris was born in Flint, Mich. He was raised as an only child by devout Catholic parents who sent him to Catholic high school and college. Fred spent three…

Remembrance of the Life of Barbara Ann Shultz SL

By Loretto Community / December 7, 2015 /

Woman with short grey hair and a hand on her left shoulder smiles for a picture wearing glasses and a pink collared blouse.

Sister Barbara Ann Shultz began life as Sara Barbara, the youngest of four children of Cleveland and Helen Colmer Shultz. She grew to adulthood in central Illinois, in Olney, the…

Remembrance of the Life of Mary Louise Pope Clute CoL

By Loretto Community / November 24, 2015 /

A woman wearing glasses and small hoop earrings smiles brightly for a portrait with a white background.

Mary Pope Clute was born in Harlan, Ky. Her father, Charles Pope, met Louise Arrowood, a nurse from Mars Hill, N.C., while he was recovering in Harlan Hospital from an…

Remembrance of the Life of Margaret Rose Knoll SL

By Loretto Community / October 6, 2015 /

A woman with white short hair and glasses smiles for a picture indoors.

Sister Margaret Rose was born in Minonk, Ill., one hundred and one years ago. This remembrance is drawn from an oral interview she did some years ago. About her parents…

Remembrance of the Life of Sandy Ardoyno SL

By Loretto Community / October 5, 2015 /

A grey, short haired woman with her chin resting on her hands smiles for a portrait picture with a black background.

Sandy Ardoyno lived fully and with much enthusiasm all the days of her life! Sandy followed her twin sister, Susie, into the world, making her the third of the four…

Remembrance of the Life of Mary Judith Brown SL

By Loretto Community / August 4, 2015 /

Frances Marie Brown, the eldest of four, was born Oct. 30, 1922 in Elwood, Ind. Her siblings were Howard, Herb, and Sue. Her father, Harold E. Brown, originally of Muncie,…

Remembrance of the Life of Marie Joann Rekart SL

By Loretto Community / July 4, 2015 /

Marie Joann asked that her own accounts of her life be used in the remembrance after her death. Accordingly, we begin where she began her autobiography: “The population of Brentwood,…

The Formation of a Class of Co-Members

By Loretto Community / June 10, 2015 /

By the Study Group CIP Class of 2015 Sometime late in the year 2012, at the suggestion of Mary Ken Lewis, a small group of vowed members from Loretto Motherhouse…

Remembrance of the Life of Michelle Tooley CoL

By Loretto Community / May 26, 2015 /

A woman with shoulder length brown hair, wearing a white turtleneck, a red sweater, and dangly earrings smiling for a picture in an office space at a desk with shelving holding books and butter yellow walls in the background.

Michelle Tooley was born in Lufkin, Texas, the oldest of four children. In her application for Loretto co-membership, Michelle wrote about her growing up as “a daughter of the South.…

Remembrance of the Life of Martha Belke SL

By Loretto Community / April 12, 2015 /

A woman with short grey hair, and round wire glasses wearing a striped light pink collared blouse smiling for a picture.

Martha Jane Belke was born into a hard working German Catholic family in Louisville’s upper west end. She was the sixth of seven girls born to Mary Catherine Huff Belke…

Remembrance of the Life of Harriet (Tip) Barker Altmix CoL

By Loretto Community / March 15, 2015 /

A black and white portrait picture of a woman smiling brightly with short white hair, and round wire glasses, wearing a chain necklace, earrings, and a black blouse with a dark grey background.

After 94 years of enjoying life, Harriet (Tip) Barker Altmix CoL died on March 15, 2015. Tip was born in Denver, Colo., to Charles and Harriet Barker in 1921 and…

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The Loretto Community consists of the congregation of the Sisters of Loretto and Loretto Co-members. The congregation of the Sisters of Loretto at the Foot of the Cross was founded in rural Kentucky in 1812. Today, our Sisters and Co-members continue to live out the Loretto Community’s mission to “work for justice and act for peace because the Gospel urges us.” In the United States and throughout the world, Loretto Community members serve in many fields, including education, healthcare, elder care, environmental stewardship and advocacy.