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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.
Remembrance of the Life of Jane Willett Harris CoL (formerly Sister Jane Therese Willett SL)
Mary Theresa Willett Harris was born and raised in Howardstown, Ky., by Catholic parents, Lawrence Edward Willett and Genevieve (Jennie) Boone Willett. Baptized on the same day as her birth, Theresa was one of a family that ultimately included four…
Remembrance of the Life of Sister Barbara Anderson SL
Barbara Anderson was born in Springfield, Mass., the only daughter of Karl Eric Walter Anderson and Edna Victoria Clow Anderson. Her only brother, Carl, was six years older than she. Barbara attended public schools in Springfield, graduating from the Technical…
Remembrance of the Life of Sister Patricia Anne (formerly Sister Mary Richelle) Cullen
Sister Pat Cullen left us several autobiographical sketches, which provide the substance of this remembrance. Pat begins her life story thus: “When the spring cleaning of Heaven took place one year in the reign of FDR, an 8-pound Piscean was…
Remembrance of the Life of Sister Marian (formerly Sister John Carroll) Andrews SL
The following is Sister Marian Andrews’ autobiography, which she submitted to the Archives in 1987: “I was born in Pueblo, Colo., in 1924, the first daughter of John Jacob and Helen Marie Andrews who, in subsequent years, had two other…
Remembrance of the Life of Lucy Donovan Walsh CoL
Lucy Donovan Walsh of Kirkwood, Mo., composed a thorough autobiography, at the time of her application for Co-membership in the Loretto Community in 1989: “One must start with being born of wonderful parents, Judge Jack A. Walsh and Lucy Ann…
Remembrance of the Life of Sister M. Kristin McNamara SL
Kristin McNamara composed her own obituary and submitted it to the Archives when she moved from Taos, N.M., to Loretto Motherhouse. It reads as follows: “On April 17, 1932, I was born to Marie and James McNamara. Both were wonderful…
Remembrance of the Life of Sister Carolyn Ann Wheat SL
Sister Carolyn Ann, who was baptized Anna Sophia, was a daughter of Kentucky who spent almost her entire adult life in the western United States. Her mother, Georgia Regina Thompson, was a descendant of the pioneering Cambron family of the Kentucky…
Remembrance of the Life of Jenelyn Wessler CoL
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 in Oregon, named Jenelyn and attended St. Helens Hall High School in Portland. She went on to earn…
Remembrance of the Life of Sister Anne Michelle LaMarre SL
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 four sisters, all of whom attended Loretto-taught St. Patrick’s grade and high schools in Kankakee. Their father, Eugene…
Remembrance of the Life of Sister Jane (Sister John Dennis) Clark, SL
Jane Clark was born in Lebanon, Ky., a descendant of two of Kentucky’s earliest Catholic families. Her father was John Dennis Clark of Lebanon and her mother Lucy Thomas of Calvary. Jane loved to repeat her father’s laughing claim that…
Remembrance of the Life of Alma Schuler CoL
Alma Marcella Schuler was a quiet, gentle woman often introduced in Loretto circles as “the younger sister of the Schuler twins.” Alma, known in the family as Peggy, was the third child of Leo Joseph Dominic Schuler and Elizabeth Lillian…
Remembrance of the Life of Barbara Agnew CPPS, CoL
Sister Barbara Agnew was born in Dayton, Ohio, the older of two children of Walter Ignatius and Marie Katherine Weiser Agnew. She grew up in Cincinnati and attended Regina High School where the Sisters of the Precious Blood had a…