Remembrances
The prayer card for Loretto’s deceased members reads, “Gracious God, may they live forever in the splendor of your light and life in the company of all the saints.” We know that they do, but it’s good to say it. View all Obituaries.
Loretto Co-member Rose Marie Nielsen died Aug. 31 at age 83 at her home in Tennessee in the 43rd year of her Loretto co-membership. In 1957 she was received into…
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Loretto Co-member Marcia Coleman Kaldenhoven died quietly Aug. 29 in a nursing facility in her hometown of Heemstede, The Netherlands, with her dear husband, Joop, by her side. She was…
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(Editor’s Note: The first portion of this remembrance is Sister Jean Johnson’s autobiography. The latter portion was written by Eleanor Craig SL.) “On May 12, 1927, I arrived, the fifth…
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Sister Theresa Coyle died July 14 at Loretto Motherhouse Infirmary in Nerinx, Ky. She was 92 and in the 74th year of her Loretto commitment. A remembrance of her life…
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In early March of 1970, Sister Sylvia Ginder wrote to Sister Mary Luke Tobin, then completing her 12 years as the General Superior of the Sisters of Loretto. Sylvia’s letter is…
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Loretto Co-member Eileen Loretto Wirtz passed away peacefully on June 1, 2021, in Overland Park, Kan. In the 14th year of her Loretto commitment, she was capping a lifetime as a high school…
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Ed and Lois Gerity chose the perfect name when their middle child and only daughter was born on Sept. 24, 1940. Joy lived up to her name in every…
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Jean would often say to me, Mary Margaret, people don’t really know me. I said I will tell them. So let me begin. Dr. Kurstin arrived in the nick of…
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John Bromley Moskeland was surely the nicest, kindest man we ever knew. Most of us knew John first as Lillian’s husband and Mary Peter Bruce’s brother-in-law. He was quick to…
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Marjorie Riggs died in the 25th year of her Loretto Co-membership. When she applied for co-membership in late 1996, Marge wrote an autobiography in which she laid out her life…
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Hedwig Isabelle Catherine Bruck arrived as Frank and Mary Bruck’s first child exactly nine months after their marriage, “an embarrassment” her parents joked. She was born in Quincy, Ill., although…
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Mary Theresa Wiseman was the oldest child of Charles Bernard and Christine Margaret McMillen Wiseman, two Catholics from the area around Elizabethtown in Hardin County, Ky. Their family grew to…
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