75th Sisters celebrate a lifetime in Lo

75th
Diamond Jubilee
Sisters celebrate a
T
en years into this new century, the Sisters of Loretto pause to honor two of its members who joined the order 75 years ago
in 1935, and who are enjoying life today. In anyone’s book this is a lifetime of service to God. Sisters Mary Barbara Croghan and
Carolyn Mary Tighe are Loretto’s 2010 Diamond Jubilarians. In addition, six sisters are celebrating their Golden Jubilees this year,
having reached 50 years in the community. They are Sisters Mary Kay Brannan, Mary Ann McGivern, Pearl McGivney, Roseanne
Thornton, Frances Weber, and Mary Catherine Widger. Each of their lifetime journeys is unique, and each sister speaks beautifully
about Loretto’s deep personal meaning. Seven Loretto co-members will attain their Silver Jubilee in 2010, or 25 years with the community. They are Jan Marie Belle, Janel Crumb OSF, Severin Duehren OSF, Gordie Albi, Jean East, Joan Wislinsky, and Ethel Mae
Siegwald. Their stories will be featured in the upcoming summer edition of Loretto Magazine.
Mary Barbara Croghan SL
Received April 25, 1935
“I was born in Denver on Jan. 22, 1919. At a very early age we moved to
Casper, Wyo., and from there to Los Angeles. By this time there were three girls,
my father and mother. We were enrolled in the public school system and we were not
happy. My parents transferred us to Nativity School in L.A., taught by the Sisters of
St. Joseph. At that time I decided that I wanted to be a nun when I became older. But
the Sisters of St. Joseph were transferred, and the Sisters of Loretto took over Nativity
School. The Sisters of Loretto seemed so happy. We were very poor, and there were so
good to us. I graduated from Nativity School, and knew I’d be a Sister of Loretto some day.
I completed my secondary education at Loretto Motherhouse Normal, Loretto Heights College, one
summer at Creighton University, and many Saturdays at Immaculate Heart College in L.A. Right now
I am retired at our Infirmary at the Kentucky Motherhouse doing various and sundry little volunteer
jobs that are always around. I have never had the desire to leave, even when teaching became very difficult and changes occurred in Loretto. I believe the only reason I stayed was the power and grace of
God, no power of mine. I love Loretto, and that love will, I believe, hold me here.”
Carolyn Mary Tighe SL
Received Dec. 8, 1935
In the 1920s, Carolyn Mary Tighe’s parents obtained 160 acres in
Elizabeth, Colo., through a government land-grant program. They moved
from their Chicago home to farm this land and raise their children out west. “I
was the fourth of eight children. Six girls and two boys. All six girls became
nuns,” said Tighe. “We had magnificent parents. We’re anxious to see them in
heaven!”
Born in Chicago in December 1917, Carolyn Mary Tighe was 17 when she
entered Loretto and 21 years old when she began teaching school, which she did
for 75 years in various assignments from Kentucky to El Paso to St. Louis; Pueblo,
Colo.; Kansas City; Bisbee, Ariz.; Los Angeles; and Colorado Springs. She became a
music teacher and choir director. “I did choir for 35 years, and was never without my pitch pipe.
I had the kids singing all the time,” she said. Now at age 92, she lives in Colorado Springs, is in
fragile health, but praises God every day. “I’m grateful that I got to live with Holy Mass and Holy
Communion all my life. God is good. When Jesus says at Holy Mass this is my body and this is my
blood, I believe that thoroughly; that it never leaves our body, if we live from him. ‘I am the vine,
and you are the branch.’”
From her many years teaching in El Paso, Texas, Carolyn Mary has a favorite saying. “Three words in Spanish: Vaya con
Dios (Go with God). Every time I’m on a phone conversation, I like to end it with those words,” she said.
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lifetime in Loretto
50th
Golden Jubilee
Mary Kay Brannan SL
Received May 31, 1960
Sister Mary Kay Brannan’s lifetime of learning began down home
on a 10-acre farm in Topeka, Kansas. “We had pigs and chickens and
vegetables. Mother did the farming. Dad was a butter-maker for Meadow
Gold. We also grew strawberries,” she said. Growing up on the farm
brought her close to her only sibling, her brother, Bob Brannan. They
remain best of friends today.
“I fell in love with nature when I lived on the farm. We had a
pond where we could swim in summer and skate in winter,” she said. “We
did chores before we did anything else. I cleaned the house, took phone
messages, and then I would cook dinner because my mother and brother
were out in the strawberry patch.”
Mary Kay met the Sisters of Loretto when her family left the farm and
moved to Denver. She attended school at St. Vincent de Paul where the sisters taught
at that time. She graduated from Loretto Heights College in Denver and later joined
the community. Over the years she taught school in St. Louis and Kentucky, directed
a battered women’s project in New Mexico, became a licensed CNA in Denver, and
worked for the Loretto Development Office and as a nurse’s assistant at the Denver
Loretto Center. “Now I’m in vocational outreach, which is a religious call.”
Mary Kay said, “I don’t know what I would have done if I’d not been a
Sister of Loretto. Every day has been meaningful. In the novitiate, I heard this little
passage that God loves me for nothing, that God’s love is unconditional. I don’t have
to prove myself; it doesn’t matter what I do or don’t do. And God is always present,
and that if God accepts me like that, then I know that I can accept others as infinitely lovable no matter what they appear to be or how they act. In Loretto I have
learned who I am as a person, as a human being. And the vows. . . .” She paused, her
voice filling with emotion. “It’s just a great life.”
Sisters Mary Kay Brannan (left) and Marietta
Goy visit the Tetons in Wyoming.
Mary Ann McGivern SL
Received May 31, 1960
“We moved around a lot when I was a child — Chicago, Connecticut,
Indiana, Minneapolis. I met the Sisters of Loretto when I was in the eighth
grade in Kankakee, Ill. Then, after my freshman year, we moved to Minneapolis. When I finished high school I decided to enter Loretto. I’m the oldest of
seven children. On the day I left for Kentucky it was a school day, Sept. 15, but
the whole family drove me to the airport and saw me off to Louisville. Then
they went to McDonald’s for breakfast. It was 1959, McDonald’s was very new,
and missing a morning of school was extraordinary. So for my siblings it was a
very special day. For me, too!
“I began my working life as a teacher in Highland Park, then Denver
and Kansas City. In Denver in 1965 I began working with farm workers and
saw real poverty for the first time. I moved to St. Louis and worked for the
Institute for Peace and Justice. I went to a United Farm Workers Organizing Committee meeting and promised to picket for the grape boycott the next
Saturday, but I didn’t show up. Nonetheless, the local organizer asked me to
represent the Catholic Church at a press conference. Although I explained that
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sisters don’t represent the Catholic Church, and I’d only been in St. Louis a month, the organizer couldn’t get anyone else. So I agreed
to speak, got press coverage, and lots of recognition. I was deeply embarrassed because I knew I had not even shown up to picket
a grocery store. So I promised myself I would show up, I would picket. I was there at Schnuck’s or the 911 Liquor Store protesting
Gallo Wines almost every Saturday for four years. That’s where I learned nonviolence, on those picket lines. It’s where I got arrested
the first time, too.
“Then, in 1977, I was one of seven women who opened the Karen House Catholic Worker (Ann Manganaro was another),
and with two other women started the St. Louis Economic Conversion Project. For 28 years I lived at the Catholic Worker and went
out to my day job calling for an end to military spending and, for a couple of years, working on the Loretto staff. Most recently I’ve
been working with men and women released from prison and meeting with state legislators to tell them about the ways some of their
legislation hinders reentry from prison into the community, and, in fact, sets up people with felony convictions for failure.
“Loretto is home. I joined this community when I was 17, and my life as an adult has been formed here. The sisters and comembers are my family. We share spirituality, a sense of mission and life together.”
Pearl McGivney SL
Received by the Sisters of St. Joseph, May 31, 1960
Sister Pearl McGivney was born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., and educated in
Catholic schools, earning a degree in education at Brentwood College and a master’s
degree in theology at Manhattan College. She joined the Sisters of St. Joseph in
Brentwood, N.Y., in September 1959, and became an elementary and high school
teacher.
Pearl first met the Sisters of Loretto through Loretto Co-member Mary Jean Friel
in January 1972, working with United Farm Workers in California. “In the summer
of 1973 thousands of farm workers were on strike in fields of California grapevines,”
Pearl said. “From April through August, we moved with the workers from Calexico on
the border to Fresno mid-state. When we finally arrived at the harvest in Fresno, Mary
Pearl McGivney SL (left) with volunteers Alicia Jean and a few young women workers stayed behind in Lamont to finish up work
Hernandez and Marco Fernandez at the Farm after the strike activities there. I received a phone call that they had been arrested —
Worker Ministry, Inc., Auburndale, Fla.
a dangerous situation since there was a great animosity among police, jail officials,
court workers, etc., because of recent strike arrests of multitudes of farm workers.
I called to tell Loretto — Luke [Mary Luke Tobin SL] and Helen [Helen Sanders SL] came to the phone — the community was in
Assembly.
“Next thing I knew, the Assembly had sent Sisters Cathy Mueller and Ann Pat Ware to California. Mary Jean returned to the
Assembly with Cathy and told the farm workers’ story, and Ann Pat said, ‘How can I help . . . anything you want me to do, I’m here
and available.’ Next, Sister Penny McMullen arrived on the Greyhound bus and made the same offer. Ann Pat sat for hours day and
night communicating our plight throughout the country by phone and helped us break the press blackout we were experiencing. I can
still see Penny’s very dry, cracked lips as she participated daily in the hot sun in the fast being undertaken inside the jail and outside by
supporters. I thrilled at Loretto Community in action, both at the Assembly and on the strike line in California."
In 1982 Sister Pearl transferred from the Sisters of St. Joseph to the Sisters of Loretto. Since 1984 Pearl has been co-director
of the Farm Worker Ministry, Inc., in Florida. “In the [intervening years], the spirit moved me . . . from New York to California,
to Denver, to Loretto, to Haiti, to El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala . . . always learning more of the presence of God with, in,
and through the poor. Loretto as a community became a challenge for me to rediscover the possibility of living faithfully together
in community and responding communally to the needs of the times. Loretto gatherings . . . are eucharistic for me and make my
community life most meaningful,” she said. “I continue to be overwhelmed by the breadth of commitment and fidelity within the
community; and believe we do embody the ‘creative spirit of God, whose grace . . . continues to work in the community as a whole
and in each of its members.’ (I Am the Way). Therefore, I embrace the journeying of the future with great expectation.”
Roseanne Thornton SL
Received May 31, 1960
In 1939 Roseanne Thornton was born the oldest of five children and raised in Denver. She attended
Blessed Sacrament Grade School and St. Mary’s Academy, later graduating from Webster College in St. Louis.
“I became aware of the Sisters of Loretto because I went to Loretto schools all my life,” she said. “I wanted to
take care of children. It was just natural. They were a teaching order, so I presumed that was what I would do.”
After her novitiate at the Kentucky Motherhouse, Roseanne taught first-graders in different assignments in Ft.
Collins, Colo., Highwood, Ill., Kentucky, and again in Denver. Thirty-four years ago she relocated to the St.
Louis Center. “I enjoyed coming to this house. I feel like it’s my home,” Roseanne said.
In an interview for her Jubilee, Sister Roseanne talked about what her life in Loretto means to her.
“I feel like I want to get to know Jesus as well as I can. I want to learn more and more and more. That’s the
main thing that keeps me going. I want readers to understand that this whole thing is because of God, and love,
because I could never stay at anything like this for 50 years . . . I just want them to know that it’s not me who did it!”
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Frances Weber SL
Received May 31, 1960
Sister Frances Weber, a native Texan, first came to know the Sisters of Loretto when her mother
enrolled her in St. Mary’s Star of the Sea, a K-8 school in Freeport, Texas, run in the 1950s by
Loretto. Frances remembers every one of the sisters by name who taught her from third through
eighth grade. “My heart was broken when I didn’t get to graduate with my St. Mary’s class because
my father was transferred to Thibodaux, La. In Louisiana she attended high school at Our Lady of
Mount Carmel. “I wasn’t drawn to the Carmelite sisters,” she said. “They did not have the joy and
free spirit of the Lorettos. That love of Loretto never left me.” Frances graduated from high school
in May 1959 and entered Loretto in September that year.
Frances says the highlight of her religious life was her 25th Jubilee. “There was a celebration in El
Paso. For that my parents and sister came down; it was a real milestone. I was in El Paso in 1967
and taught at both Guardian Angel and St. Patrick’s. I decided I’d like to go to art school at the University of Texas at El Paso. I got a
degree in teaching of art. Afterward I got a bachelor's degree from the UT School of Nursing.” Her fellow sisters encouraged Frances
in her art teaching and nursing. These skills later enabled her to care for her aging parents.
Sister Frances is also skilled at creating little clay ornaments she calls “small delights.” These have sold successfully at art
shows over the years. In fact, with a year of preparation and the help of her friend from El Paso, Sister Guadalupe, Frances’ first show
netted $6,000 in one weekend, she said.
“Sister Guadalupe was from Flagstaff, and she was very quiet and shy,” Frances recalled. “One day she said, ‘I can’t believe
you’re my friend.’ And I said, what do you mean by that? ‘In the beginning a lot of times I wasn’t accepted because I was Mexican.’ I
said I didn’t care if she was purple. The point of the story is that when my parents got sick, Sister Guadalupe chose to move down to
help me take care of them. She touched me in a very unique way.” Sister Guadalupe passed away in 2003.
Frances said, “The things that have meant most to me about being a Sister of Loretto are the support and love the sisters have
given me. And they helped me develop talents I don’t know if I would have recognized if I’d not been in the convent. I think of the
friendships I’ve formed — even if we don’t see each other for awhile. When I get together with them, it’s like we never left. Being in
Loretto is like being home.”
Mary Catherine Widger SL
Received May 31, 1960
Golden Jubilarian Sister Mary Catherine Widger celebrates her 50th
year as a Loretto sister along with members of her class. For Mary Kay, 46 of
those years have been spent in religious education working with developmentally
disabled children and adults.
She came to know the Sisters of Loretto early on. Born in Evanston, Ill.,
Mary Kay and her sister JoAnn moved with their parents to Denver when the girls
were toddlers, and for most of their early education they attended St. John’s Catholic
School where the Sisters of Loretto taught. “I decided to ‘join’ Loretto in the fourth grade because I
loved the sisters. I thought they always looked like they were having fun, and they all seemed to like
each other . . . and I wanted to help God ‘take care of the church,’” said Mary Kay. “I couldn’t get to
Loretto fast enough. I wanted to go in eighth grade. Dad said we’d talk about it again in four years.”
Mary Kay’s family moved back to Illinois when she was 11 years old, and she graduated
from Marywood Catholic High School in Evanston. She entered Loretto in September 1959 at the Kentucky Motherhouse. From 1962
to 1964 she lived in the House of Studies under the tutelage of Antoinette Doyle SL. “Sister Antoinette has always been a tremendous
model to me of patient, serene faithfulness,” she said. “She has always been one of those people who is a symbol of what Loretto is to
me.”
Mary Kay graduated from Webster College in St. Louis and later earned her master’s degree at Cardinal Stritch College in
Milwaukee in educating special-needs children. Her first assignment brought her to Denver in 1964 where she taught at All Souls and
at Blessed Sacrament. In 1976 she joined the Denver Archdiocese in its program of religious education and nurturing of people with
developmental disabilities at all levels. “The SRE program for the archdiocese involves setting up religious education programs in
parishes, and tutoring and working with severely disabled people at the Wheat Ridge Regional Center, a state-run facility,” she said.
In 1983 she, Sister Sue Rogers and Father Larry Freeman, a diocesan priest active in the Denver SRE, made plans to start a
group home for disabled adult women, which opened in 1985. After Father Larry’s death, his twin brother, Father Roland Freeman,
asked to assume his brother’s ministry, which he was able to do. Today the Bridge Community operates at full capacity as a permanent
residence for eight women. Mary Kay has lived there since 1983. Sister Lydia Peña is also in residence at Bridge.
“I am most grateful that Loretto educated me and allowed me to go into special education. There is always somebody to talk
to and encourage you. I see the marking of my Golden Jubilee as a celebration of God's care and fidelity. It is not so much about me
as it is about God's generosity. Loretto has always been and still is a gift to the Church. I thank God and my community for gifting me
with such a wonderful, blessed life.”
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mission to the poor, pages 5-7. Current activites of Loretto at
the United Nations have purposely engaged children and young
students from Loretto academies and colleges in attending
conferences to learn about the plight of people in developing
countries. Loretto's effort to expose students to difficulties
suffered in other parts of the world has opened their eyes,
expanded their educational horizons, and given them new tools
to spark their future interest in and activism on behalf of others
less fortunate, pages 8-9. Today, many donors continue to support
Loretto in honor and memory of the sisters who taught them,
pages 20-23.
The wide-open frontier
On the road to Jubilee 2012
Loretto moves West from 1830
to 1900, founding 99 schools
in territories that were soon to
become 13 individual states
By Carolyn Dunbar, Editor
As the Sisters of Loretto answered many
calls to provide schools and teachers
during the 19th century, their travels into
the western territories coincided with —
and were an integral part of — the prime
force, or “manifest destiny,” that drove
this extraordinary period in American
history.
T
he call to educate children defined the Sisters of Loretto
from their origins as a Catholic order of religious
women in 1812 until the Second Vatican Council
sparked significant change from 1965 to the present.
In the 70 years from 1830 until 1900, Loretto’s many teaching
missions left a lasting legacy, but how does that legacy influence
the Loretto Community today when teaching is no longer its sole
focus?
In this edition of Loretto Magazine, you'll read several first-hand
accounts from our 2010 Diamond and Golden Jubilarians of
their Loretto schooling and its direct effect on their lives, pages
12-14. Also, the Sisters of Loretto have worked with their West
African sister community, the Daughters of the Blessed Trinity,
to open a new primary school for poor children in Ghana, pages
10-11. A brand-new Loretto home (foundation) has just opened
in Faisalabad, Pakistan, which is likely to involve a teaching
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In 1830 the country was still in its infancy, just 47 years after the
great War for Independence. And it had been only 24 years since
the Lewis and Clark Expedition had returned to St. Louis from
its singular journey to the Pacific Ocean. The possibilities for
this new nation were wide open, as vast as the western frontier,
limited only by the imagination, stamina, and courage of the
young Americans who pushed westward. Many families were
eager to discover what this new land would hold for them, and
what their strong hands and God-fearing hearts could make of it.
Mary Matilda Barrett SL, in her unfinished manuscript One
Hundred and Fifty Years, described the daunting emptiness of the
American West, alluding to the courage and faith it must have
taken for the sisters to brave the unknown, intent on teaching
the new pioneers. “The Osage Mission, founded [in 1847] seven
years before territorial status was given to the region that is now
the state of Kansas, lost in a sea of distance, also knew poverty,
the poverty of the frontier, which was outweighed only by the
loneliness and the appalling stillness of the boundless prairie, far
from all human aid, with no recourse but Divine Providence.”
Appalling stillness. How we, driven by our 21st century stress,
may often long for that stillness today — but only given our
paved roads, motorized transportation, instant communication,
plentiful food, clothing, and shelter . . . or with the knowledge
that these are never far from reach. Without these comforts, we,
too, might face with fear and trepidation an unbroken sea of grass
stretching far beyond an unfamiliar horizon. Would we have been
brave enough to walk in the company of hardship, sacrifice, and
even death to blaze a new trail and push onward until our mission
was accomplished?
Tales from the Osage Mission
The Sisters of Loretto who were living in St. Genevieve, Mo., at
the time responded to the call to establish the first “Indian Mission
of the Congregation” in St. Paul, Kansas. Mother Generose
Mattingly named Sisters Concordia Henning, Bridget Hayden,
Mary Petronilla Van Prater, and Vincentia McCool to undertake
the frontier mission. The year was 1847, and these women too
often found their mission standing inconveniently between
the Osage Indians and U.S. soldiers in a fight for territorial
dominance. Courtesy of Loretto Archivist Katherine Misbauer
SL, the following is information taken from the files of Osage
Mission. These are the recollections of Bridget Hayden SL.
After getting to know her, the Osage Indians at Osage
Mission called Mother Bridget Hayden “Medicine Woman.”
She established “the Job Room,” a room in the convent
set apart for the purpose of taking care of the sick or those
affected in any physical way. The Indians frequently suffered
from boils and sores of all kinds.
Every morning regularly two or more sisters would spend
some hours in the Job Room. They washed and dressed
innumerable boils and sores. In addition, Jesuit Father
Schoenmakers’ knowledge was invaluable to the community.
With his aid, small pox, malaria, and many other physical
ills were combated.
A company of soldiers came to rob the Mission. They began
to go through the convent building when one of the leaders
said to his companions, “Come away, there is nothing
here but poverty.” It was true that poverty was apparent
everywhere. Within the humble walls of the convent, however,
were $7,000 dollars worth of various goods needed to care
for all at the Mission. The soldiers did not notice anything.
The sisters has been told by the Jesuit Priests never to show
fear either to the Indians or the soldiers. So well did the
Sisters observe the counsel, that the Indians were often heard
to say, “The sisters are braves.” It was a high compliment to
the sisters.
Many new foundations
Today the sisters speak of their foundresses — Mary Rhodes,
Christina Stuart, and Ann Havern — who began by teaching the
children in Kentucky settlements in the early 1800s. They soon
wished to form a new religious community, and with the help of
Father Charles Nerinckx, began The Little Society of the Friends
of Mary under the Cross of Jesus.
Their purpose was 1) devotion to God and to the honor of
the Blessed Virgin Mary, 2) perpetual contemplation and
remembrance of Jesus, and 3) “the propagation of our holy
religion by instructing youth and by paying any spiritual or
corporal service compatible with the spirit of the institute.”
(I Am the Way)
During the 70 years from 1830 to 1900, the Sisters of Loretto
were intent on achieving their threefold purpose, carrying out
the third purpose with vigor. The impact of their efforts is clearly
told at the commemoration of their first 100 years as a religious
community. Archivist Kate Misbauer provided this excerpt from
the address of Reverend Celestine Brey, AM, STB, delivered on
occasion of Loretto’s Centennial Celebration, April 25, 1912. He
told the crowd:
As early as February 1832, a colony of six sisters under the
leadership of Mother Agnes Hart was sent from Loretto to
Long Lick, Breckenridge County, Kentucky, where Father
Robert Abell had built for them a new house, which they called
Mt. Carmel and where they labored heroically for seven years.
1633 —1812
Catholics Settle in America,
Loretto Story Begins
1812 — 1830
Loretto Foundation and Early Days;
Moving Beyond Kentucky
1830 — 1900
Education Mission Expands;
Loretto Pushes Westward
1900 —1960
Education Efforts Diversify;
First Loretto Infirmary Opens
1923: Loretto in China
1960 — 1970
Decade of Renewal;
Loretto Studies Guidelines, Governance
1960: Loretto in Latin America
1970 —1990
New Government Structure;
Loretto Works for Justice/Peace
1989: Loretto in Ghana
1990 —2000
Co-membership Continues to Flourish;
Loretto and Ecological Awareness
2000 —2012
Loretto Leadership Expands;
Sister Communities Embrace
2009: Loretto in Pakistan
2012
Loretto Celebrates 200th Jubilee!
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While today this house is in a dilapidated condition,
“Monastery Farm” and “Monastery Ford” and a faithful
Catholic people are still there to remind the newcomer of
the great blessings that were showered upon Breckenridge
County in the balmy days of its early history by the Sisters of
Loretto.
To establish a new school, academy, mission home, or convent
is to “make a foundation.” Remarkably, the Little Society made
nine foundations in the 18 years between 1812 and 1830. Eight
of these were in Kentucky, and one in LaFourche, La., which
lasted only three years. Between 1830 and 1900 — the period
that concerns this article — the sisters founded 99 schools in
territories that would become 13 different states. Twenty-five of
these were additional schools in Kentucky. Thirty-two schools
opened in Missouri, 12 in New Mexico, nine in Colorado, five in
Illinois, four in Alabama, three each in Arkansas and Texas, two
in Kansas, and one each in Arizona, California, Nebraska, and
Ohio.
Each of the 99 foundations had its own unique history of the
manner, time, and unique circumstances in which it came into
being. Much has been written about these individual foundations,
and is worth study. So how do we determine their impact on
the people settling the American West? We can start with the
numbers. The Loretto Archives in Nerinx, Ky., keeps a record of
every Loretto foundation started in 1812 to the present day. Of
the 99 schools opened between 1830 and 1900, many lasted for
decades, and some more than 100 years. A few of them are going
strong today. Some of them did not succeed and closed after a
year or two. If you total the years each school was open until the
sisters “withdrew,” in the parlance of the Archives, and then add
them together, the number of years these schools matriculated
students comes to an amazing 4,509. This is a matter of record.
Loretto Academy in Las Cruces,
N.M., was founded in 1879 and
educated students for 73 years
until it closed in 1943. Illustration
by Edith Ann Jaeger SL.
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To determine exactly how
many students graduated
every year from every
school is more difficult.
Some records exist, others
did not survive. We can still
get an idea of the impact
or influence these schools
had, however, by applying
some conservative guesses.
Suppose, for example, we
apply a low estimate to the
accumulated 4,509 years the
99 schools were open for
business. Say on average,
five students graduated from
each school for each year it
was open. By multiplying
five graduates by 4,509
years, an estimate of the
total number of students
graduating from Loretto
schools started between 1830
and 1900 is 22,145. If 10
Founded in 1864, St. Mary's Academy has been a top school on
the Denver scene ever since. 2010 marks the 146th year SMA
has been educating students.This illustration by Pat Patterson
depicts the school's third Denver location, which opened in 1951.
students graduated from each school for each year it remained
open, that’s 45,090 graduates over the 70-year period. Fifteen
students per year makes 67,635 graduates, and so on. Most
graduates would grow up to raise their own families and develop
their own circles of acquaintance, where the influence of their
Loretto education would be likely to spread.
These figures are conservative, but one can begin to grasp the
number of people educated and influenced for life by the Sisters
of Loretto. Moreover, the heyday of Loretto’s educational
leadership and strength in the United States was not to reach its
zenith until the 1960s.
Sister Mary Lilliana Owens, Ph.D., wrote in “Loretto in
Missouri” [1965, B. Herder Book Co., St. Louis] of Loretto's call
to teach:
Providence raised the Sisters of Loretto up for the cause of
religious education, and placed them in the class and lecture
room — one of the most glorious, the most useful, the most
important works that God’s providence has ever assigned to
any society of women.
Interestingly, this book came out in 1965, the year in which
profound changes would rock the Catholic Church and many
religious orders, including the Sisters of Loretto — ultimately
opening their mission and vision beyond the walls of the
classroom to serve the poor and needy and promote peace and
justice in many new and different ways. A look at this important
time and the changes it brought about will be the subject of a
future article in our series Journey to Jubilee 1812-2012.
loretto community members to remember
Alma Riggs SL (formerly Mary Eucharia Riggs SL), Dec. 11, 1915 — Nov. 21, 2009
On Dec. 11, 1915, Sister Alma Riggs was born Alma Elizabeth to James and Mary Helen Riggs in the tiny town
of Chicago, Ky., now Loretto, Ky. She was the sixth of nine children. She entered the Sisters of Loretto on June
24, 1933, taking the religious name Sister Mary Eucharia, which she later changed to her baptismal name, Sister
Alma. She made first vows on Dec. 8, 1935, and four years later her final vows. Her 45-year professional career
was devoted to teaching elementary school children in St. Louis and Kentucky. Alma died Nov. 21 at the Loretto
Motherhouse in Nerinx, Ky., at age 93 and in her 76th year as a Sister of Loretto.
Neysa Chouteau CoL, Nov. 5, 1927 — Nov. 29, 2009
Neysa Carol Morrel was born in Macomb, Okla. She graduated from Oklahoma A&M College (now Oklahoma
State University) in 1949. There she met Jim Chouteau; they were married in June that year. They lived first
in Topeka, Kan., and came to live in St. Louis in 1951. Neysa worked for eight years at American Investment
Company and in 1959 began a long career in editing for Webster Publishing Co., which became a division of
McGraw-Hill Book Co. After taking early retirement, she and Martha Alderson started a freelance writing and
editing business, which they continued for about 10 years. Neysa was editor of Loretto Magazine for 20 years.
She became a Loretto co-member in 1984. She had suffered a serious illness for the last three years and died just
short of her 25th Jubilee as a co-member on Nov. 29. She was 82 years old.
Sarah Maureen (Maude) Concannon SL, June 6, 1919 — Dec. 16, 2009
Sarah Maureen Concannon was born Mary Margaret on June 6, 1919, to John and Sarah Concannon in St. Louis.
She was the fifth of seven children. She joined Loretto in 1951 at age 32. In 1952 she received the habit taking the
name Sister Sarah Maureen. She soon became known as Sarah Maude, a name that “stuck” throughout her life.
Her teaching assignments took her to Houston, Kansas City, Kankakee, Denver, Elizabethtown, and Louisville. In
2003 she moved to the Motherhouse Infirmary where she continued to pray and take action to improve ecological
conditions whenever she could until her death at age 90 in her 58th year as a Sister of Loretto.
Betsy Wolf CoL, Mar. 10, 1917 — Dec. 25, 2009
A Colorado Springs native, Betsy Wolf lived a long life of devotion and service to the church, especially to St.
James Parish in Denver, and to the interfaith group Church Women United. She married William Wolf in the
1940s, and the couple had five children. William died in 1968. Betsy became acquainted with the Sisters of
Loretto when her children attended Machebeuf High School in Denver. She and Machebeuf Principal Rosemary
Wilcox SL became colleagues and lifelong friends. A co-member for 38 years, she participated in community
activities, joining community groups when they were formed and hosting Loretto meetings in her home. Betsy
Wolf was 92 years old when she died on Christmas Day 2009.
Mary Jane Sweeney SL (formerly Mary Leontine SL), Oct. 28, 1918 — Jan. 7, 2010
Mary Jane Sweeney was born in St. Louis to Martin and Anne Sweeney. She entered the Sisters of Loretto in
1945 at age 27 and took the name Sister Mary Leontine. She made final vows in 1951. Later she returned to her
baptismal name. A teacher for 35 years, Jane taught math and business courses in Missouri, Alabama, Illinois,
New Mexico, Texas, and for three years in Ethiopia with the Peace Corps. Also, she served as librarian in four
Loretto schools and used her administrative skills for the Loretto Staff Office in Colorado and the Loretto Center
in Missouri. At the time of her death at the Loretto Motherhouse, Jane was 91 years old.
Robert Leona Edelen SL, Aug. 7, 1913 — Feb. 4, 2010
Mary Leona was born in Bardstown, Ky., to Robert and Leona Edelen. She entered Loretto in 1930 at age 17,
making first vows in 1932 and final vows in 1935. To honor her parents she took the religious name Sister Robert
Leona. Her lifelong career as a music educator, organist, and band director took her to many school and parish
assignments in Kentucky, Colorado, California, Illinois, and Missouri. In 1985 she retired from the classroom
and choir responsibilities to assist at the Loretto Motherhouse, Nerinx, Ky. She was soon enlisted to form a band
with 20 other sisters, performing on feast days and special occasions. At the time of her death at the Motherhouse
Infirmary, Sister Robert Leona was 96 years old in her 79th year as a Sister of Loretto.
Margaret Ann “Mimi” Jones SL, May 16, 1916 — Feb. 14, 2010
Denver native Margaret Ann Jones was born Amelia Louise to F. Tuvant and Victoria Piquette Tuvant. At age 7, her
mother remarried Robert Jones, and the two gave her a loving home. In 1939 at age 23, Amelia entered the Sisters of
Loretto, taking first vows in 1941 and final vows in 1945. She took the name Sister Mary Margaret Ann Jones, and
became known as “Mimi.” Her teaching career began in El Paso in 1942 and for many years she went back and forth
between assignments in Denver and New Mexico. Her latest ministry was teaching at Havern School and living in
the Denver Loretto Center for 14 years. In 1989 at age 73, Mimi moved to the Loretto Motherhouse, Nerinx, Ky., and
worked in Residence Services as an aide and driver for the Infirmary. She had just celebrated her 70th Jubilee when she
died at age 93.
Complete remembrances available at www.lorettocommunity.org.
Spring 2010 • 19
gifts
Memorials and Tributes of Honor
October 2009 — January 2010
In Memory of:
Requested by:
Anne & Francis Albin
Anne M. Vrbicky
Kathryn & Bernard Ambre
Mary & Joseph Highland
Vincent M. Andrasko
Margaret Andrasko
Dr. Earl Bach
Judy & Robert Allan
Agnes Therese Ballard SL
Saundra & Nicholas Winterberg
Thomas Emerson Ballard
Margaret Mary & Tom Ballard, Jr.
Ellen Barry Ballard
Mary Ann Wyrsch
Benny Ballard
Deborah A. Ballard
Mary & Bob Banck
Mary Ann & John H. Miller
Deacon Lewis Barbato
Mary & Henry Concha
All deceased members of
the Barrett Family
Ann Barrett SL
Marian Bayers
Raymond L. Bayers
Theresa Biava
Doris L. Biava
Aurore & Philip Boisvert
Roland Boisvert
Mary Boland*
Rev. Sally K. Brown
Mary Grace Boone SL
Mary & James Rogers
Rev. John Bowe CR
Cathey S. Ott
Sylvester Bowling SL
Lucille Jaworowski
Rev. Kevin M. Bradt SJ
Frances D. Entwistle
Mary Roger Brennan SL
Catherine & John Linehan
Shirley Ann Brian
Angela & Jerome Booth
The Loretto Community
Domitilla Brown SL
Rev. Robert E. Osborne
Rosalie & Bill Brown
Sharon A. Henry
Fr. William J. Burch
Earnestine Nall
Mary Elizabeth (Betty) Byrnes
Joan & James Costello
Joan Campbell SL
Dawn Dorsey-Smart
Clarice Carlson SL
Drs. Catherine Rock & David Rock
Charles R. Carpenter
Virginia A. Carpenter
Charles R. Carpenter, Jr.
Virginia A. Carpenter
Josefa Marie Casares SL
Mary G. Martinez
Gertrude Casey
The Loretto Community
Edward J. Cassilly
Patricia & Dallas Edwards
Chamberlain parents, sister,
brother and all deceased
family members
Carl Chamberlain
Christina Cheng SL
Helen Walsh*
Josephine Chew
Dr. Helen Chew &
Dr. Mark Henderson
Chiara
Dr. Clare D. Heyne
Neysa Chouteau*
Patricia Barrett
Betty Connor*
Jane Cutler
Jeanne & Robert Franklin
Barbara Light*
The Loretto Community
Betty Obal SL
Marita Woodruff*
Deceased members of class
of 1964, Loretto Academy,
Kansas City
Diane Boos
Jane Winburn Close
Mary Jane & Charles McCarthy
Sarah Maureen Concannon SL
Betty & Robert Concannon
Karen A. Jarboe
Jean Cryor
Rosemary Fiori SL
The Loretto Community
Mary McAuliffe SL
Throughout this list of Memorials and Tributes, an
asterisk ( *) following a name indicates that person is
a Loretto co-member.
20 • Loretto Magazine
Ella & Urban Daniel
Verlene D. Rogalin
Jennifer Lynn Shields Davis
The Loretto Community
Jim Davis
Joan Laurie
Apolinario H. De Leon, MD
Cecilia & Armando Mata
Violet Kathy De Nicola
Henry J. De Nicola
Michael Mary Dea SL
Lenore & Nicholas Burckel
Mary & Keller Dearing
Sharon & James Dearing
Celine Marie DeSmet SL
Barbara & J. D. Rippy
Mary Ellen Dintelmann
Ann Dintelmann
Nell & John Dobrott
Jean & Edward Hurley
Mr. & Mrs. Julian Dow, Sr.
Sara Dow
Dr. Antonio Dow
Sara Dow
George Dow
Sara Dow
A. Yates Dowell, Jr.
Marie Warnock
Virginia Ann Driscoll SL
Drs. Catherine Rock & David Rock
Mary & John Dulla
Yvonne D. Harding
Joseph Wayne Dunbar
Janice N. Dunbar
Christopher Duvall
Frances Pauline Mattingly
Thomas Walsh Ealy
Ann E. Lawrence
Charlotte Ann Ell SL
Lenore & Nicholas Burckel
James W. Lynch
Carolyn & James Russell
Mary & James Russell
Rosalie Elliott SL
Elena & Bill O’Connell
Margaret Grace Elsey SL
Ruth T. Billings
Mary Ely SL
Mary Ann Sullivan
Rose Anne Farman SL
Anne L. Chandler
Honore Roat
My Father
Mary Van Becelaere
Elizabeth & John Finnegan
Frances Finnegan
John V. Finnegan
Frances Finnegan
Simeon Finnegan
Frances Finnegan
Margaret Ann Finnie SL
Robin & Dan Wald
Mary & Joseph Fiori
Rosemary Fiori SL
Bernadette Mary Fischer SL
Wanda & James Edge
E. Ruth Flebbe*
Imogene Anspach*
Mary & Ethan Fonte
Virginia & Patrick McGrail
Anabel Fraass
Frank W. Fraass
Marilyn J. Fuchs
Richard Fuchs
Carlotta Lubeck Fugazzi
Ronald Fugazzi
Philibert Fuite SL
Mary G. Martinez
Cletus A. Gasson
Dorothy J. Gasson
Jody Gates
George Gates
Marian Gibbs SL
Alice & David Coats
Carol Gibson
Thomas E. Gibson
Josephine Mueller Gilbert
Germaine G. Knapp
Jean Patrice Golden SL
Jill & John Hill
Gloriann Goodman
Joan & Eugene Deges
Mildred Grant
David Grant
Annie Green
Catherine Green
Gondina Greenwell SL
Elizabeth & William Mariner
Matthew Marie Grennan SL
Florence & Lawrence Horan
Joan & Charles Grennan
Paul Mary Grennan SL
Joan & Charles Grennan
Margaret Grieder
Gustave Grieder
Ben Gutierrez
Teresa A. Sweetman
Jerome Gutzwiller
Loretto G. Holcomb
gifts
Clarence Gutzwiller
Loretto G. Holcomb
Henry Hagan
Maria J. Codinach
Larry Hagan
Karen Cassidy*
The Loretto Community
Georgianna Hamilton
Mary & David Hamilton
Hammett & Nathe Families
Mr. & Mrs. John F. Hammett
Barbara Hand
Theresa Cannon
Walter Harper
Karen Cassidy*
The Loretto Community
Catherine Hart
Catherine & Leroy Ellgass
Irene & Charles Haskell
Sue & Russell Haskell
Joyce Voss Heck
Henry W. Heck
Marian Alberta Hensgen SL
Marianna D. Finch
Stephen Herrmann
Dian P. Wilding
Ward Holcomb
Loretta G. Holcomb
Alban House SL
Deanna M. Larger
Larry Jones
The Loretto Community
Bernard V. Jones
Faye Jones
Richard A. Kane
Marie L. Kane
Nina & Milt Kassing
Nina K. Bryans
Michael A. Curts
Eileen Kelly SL
Michael A. Curtis
Rita Kennedy Hill
Francis Eileen Kelly SL
Michael A. Curtis
Rita Kennedy Hill
Kienstra & Glick Families
Mary & John Glick
Victoria & Michael Klebba
Irene Bugdalski
Madeleine Marie Koch SL
Catherine & Paul Czysz
Katherine Therese Kohl SL
Phyllis Lapee Fellin
William W. Kranz
Eileen Kranz
Victor B. Kroeger
Jean Clary
Ruth & Kenneth Fraser
Donna & Richard Horree
IBM Corporation
Co-workers of Alan Kroeger
Loraine & Michael Lavery
Gene Miller & Cheryl Vana
Erin & Clay Napier
Margaret A. Lally
Martin Lally
Sally Lang
The Loretto Community
Estelle Le Mire
Molly Markert
Winifred & Edmond Leach
Carol A. Selig
Fr. Larry Lee
Patsy & Woods Martin
Wallace Lee
Olga Lee
Margaret Legett
Sarah M. Legett
Bette Lesch
Edward D. Lesch
Paschalita Linehan SL
Louise Berezny
Elizabeth & Dennis Boesen
Mary & Jim Bruce
Katherine L. Carley
Tim & Kathy Farrell
Ella & Edmund Heilmeier
Alice Jane Linehan
Genevieve A. Mastaler
Marjorie* & Robert* Riggs
Helen Clare Sillstrop
Karen & Stanley Walton
Eleonore Winecoff
Harry B. Littell
Rebecca M. Littell
Loretto: All Sisters of Loretto
who taught in Sterling, Ill.
Tom Sullivan
Loretto: All deceased members
of the Sisters of Loretto
Monica & Daniel O’Shea
Loretto: All of the sisters
who taught me
Terri & Richard Meredith
Loretto: The sisters from Loretto
Academy, Kansas City, Mo.
Sharon A. Block
Loretto: Sisters who taught at
Loretto High School,
Louisville, Ky.
Doris & Joseph Walsh
Loretto: Deceased members
of Loretto Heights College,
class of 1943
Frances Finnegan
Alice Ann Love*
Joy & Roman Gales
Mary & Ed Madden
John J. Erger
Loretto Anne Madden SL
Rosemary A. Leberer
Theresa Madden SL
Rosemary A. Leberer
Mary Mangan SL
Emma Lee Chilton
Richard Fox
Mary Joan Kenny
Marie & Robert Markowski
Frank Manganaro
The Loretto Community
Sister Margaret
Mary C. Cusack
Joan Markley SL
Cynthia A. Martin
Quino E. Martinez
Mary G. Martinez
Mary Joanne Butler Marx
Ann Mary Mehling
J.R. Mattingly Family
Joan & Joseph Burke
Wanda M. Maximilien
The Loretto Community
Jerome Francis Mayer
Judith & J. Terry McIntire
Kathleen L. McAtee
H. William McAtee
Edwin Mary McBride SL
Cynthia L. Giguere-Unrein
Margaret G. Couvillon
Susan & Christopher Congalton
Millie Forster McBride
Frances & John Lewis
Marguerite & Bob McCormack
Roberta McCormack Harding
Mr. & Mrs. Gerard McEvoy
Patricia A. Kabler
Frances de Sales McGarry SL
M. Virginia May
John McGuire
Richard H. Doran
Frances De Chantal McLeese SL
Corrine Kuester
Ozella Meredith
Theresa & Dennis Vertrees
JoAnne Meyer
Janice N. Dunbar
Marguerite R. Milford
Marguerite Allan
Alicejane & Reg Miller
Mary Ann & John H. Miller
Albert Miller
Mrs. Albert H. Miller
Bill Minelli
Sally Minelli
Larry Mitchell
Patricia Matte
Jane Fitzsimons Molgaard
Mary Ellen & Allan Molgaard
Pat Moll
Dr. Dick Moll
Yancey C. Moore
John O. Moore, Sr.
Dolorine Morrison SL
Carl Chamberlain
Ann Mueller SL
Linda & Robert Mueller
Monica Mueller
Robert J. Mueller
Charles Mulhall
Alice O. Mulhall
John Murphy
The Loretto Community
Rose Catherine Murray SL
Beth & James Doran
Richard L. Nall
Earnestine Nall
Loretto Nemeth
Richard D. Clark
Deceased members of
the Newton Family
Helen C. Teter
Genevieve & Edward Nichols
Mary Ann & Gayle Rogers
Robert F. Noe
Viki Noe & John Chikow
Timothy P. O’Leary
Katrina O’Leary
Mary Naomi O’Meara SL
Judy & Robert Allan
Francis Jane O’Toole SL
Marian Brennan
Betty Wilson Scheen
Ruth Mary Olszewski SL
Edward W. Olszewski
Thomas B. Osborne
Viola F. Osborne
Mary Ethelbert Owens SL
Julia C. Gonzales
All deceased members of
the Hazel Padgett &
Carl Nett Families
Laurel & Phillip Padgett
Joseph F. Pentony
Carole G. Pentony
Georgia Peter
Mary Lou Sherman
Anna & Robert Philipp
Nancy & Fred Schweiger
Ann Monica Pierce SL
Carol & Lawrence McDaniel
Judith & Anthony Piana
Kaelin & William Rybak
Marguerite & Leo Polacco
Leanne A. Polacco
Roberta Marie Pospischil SL
Dorothy J. Sigman
Mary Pinckney Powell
Margaret Ann Hummel, SL
Patricia Hummell, SL
Stephen Purcell
Theodore A. Borrillo
Marion & Robert Budz
Mary Ann & Eugene Burdick
Patricia & James Dolan
Maureen Flanigan & Bradley Buckner
Marie & Joseph Gamarano, Jr.
Jean, Carol Jacques & Family
The Loretto Community
Sally & Thomas May
Jean & Joe McDonald
Carolynn & John Milek
Marianne & Paul O’Connell
Jo Ann* & Larry Purcell
Dorothy & Roland Sauve
Mary Katherine & Peter Savarie
Diane & Harry Schreiber
Helen & Gary Smith
Linda Kay Toland
Vicki Quatmann SL
Asherah Cinnamon
Sandra Smith Quinn
The Loretto Community
Toni Walters
Rita M. Quist
Donald Quist
Helen Rabideau
Alice L. Knutson
Jean Louise Rafferty SL
Mr. & Mrs. Galen Graham
Sarah & Antonio Jimenez
Margaret Reidy SL
Jean & Michael Reidy
Joseph J. Reuter
Susan & John Reuter
Lael Richards
Larry M. O’Shaughnessy
Hattie Richter
Heloise R. Murray
Spring 2010 • 21
gifts
Aggie Rieger
Frank A. Rieger
Alma Riggs SL
Sondra T. Simms
Francis Louise Ritter SL
Claire & Jerome Nix
Michael Ryan
Helen Ryan Kindler
Ann Lucille Ryan SL
Lynn Crowley
Joan & Paul Sheffer
Anna & Harry Sailors
Jane & Donald Reiman
Helen Sanders SL
Helen W. Walsh*
Elva Santopietro
The Loretto Community
Patricia Satterwhite
Ann Francis Gleason SL
The Loretto Community
Larry Scheopner
The Loretto Community
Louis F. Schlicher
Jane M. Schlicher
Patricia Clancy Schuerger
Thomas R. Schuerger
Marian & Fred Schweiger
Nancy & Fred Schweiger
Jennie Filippone Sedita
Jennie & Philip Leman
Jim Shanahan
The Loretto Community
Sam J. Sharpe, Jr.
Gertrude M. Sharpe
Joan Sharpen
Carolyn Jaramillo*
Ann Rita Sheahen SL
Catherine & Leroy Ellgass
Dr. Loren Sigman II
Dorothy J. Sigman
Magdalen Mary Skees SL
Mary M. Hargadon
Jayne Miller
Joseph P. Mulrooney
Jane & Bud Smith
Alice Jane Linehan
Norma Carmen Souza
Eduardo Souza
Michael J. Stacey
Marilyn L. Stacey
Mary Ellen Stiles
Jeanie & Matthew Stiles
The spring garden at Loretto
Center, Littleton, Colo.
22 • Loretto Magazine
Bernadette Subirons
Bronwyn C. Young
Gloria Sullivan
Loretta Felderhoff
Eloise Summers
Mary & Robert Tapscott
Susan Summers
The Clifford, Dostal &
Walker Families
Jane Sweeney SL
Virginia & Henry Bredeck
Josephine M. Tabacchi
Gloria W. Tabacchi
Carl R. Tanner
Kathryn G. Tanner
Lucy Thompson SL
Betty & John Knapp
Ann Virginia Tighe SL
Margaret & James Bischof
Mary Luke Tobin SL
Kay Mullen
Mary L. Noonan
Carol & John Radovich
Cora & Orville Trainor
Jane Trainor
Geralda Trainor SL
Jane Trainor
Mary Susan Truitt
Lucy A. Weiss
Bryce Curtis Turner
Suzanne D. Alley
Mary Daniel Turner SND
The Loretto Community
Valerie Usinger SL
Judith & Anthony Piana
Aileen VanDerBeck
Ann E. Mullally
Ann Patrice Wagner SL
Dr. Ann Stoddard
Flaget Waller SL
Mary Jamboretz
Mr. & Mrs. Samuel K. Wasaff
Margaret & Dan Carpenter
Helen & George Whatley
Sharon & James Dearing
Bill Wheat
The Loretto Community
Deceased members of the
Wheatley Family
Mary W. Myers
Virginia Williams SL
Emma Lee Chilton
Joan R. Williams
Glenn D. Williams
Josepha Wiseman SL
Mary Wiseman Roscoe
Betsy Wolf*
Evelyn Houlihan SL
Jane Kosters*
The Loretto Community
Trinidad C. Ybarra
Mary & John Ybarra
Dr. Mark Young
Luciana & Arthur Young
Mary Ann Zgiet
Victor J. Zgiet
Robert Zoeller
The Loretto Community
In Honor of:
Requested by:
A cross ( † ) appearing in front of a name
indicates that person has died in the
time between the date the donation was
received and publication of this edition.
Pauline Albin SL
Kaelin & William Rybak
Sandra, Josephine, Lucy,
Marianne and Patrick Alpers,
and his parents
Marianne & Patrick Alpers
Michael C. Anderson
Mary Sue Anderson
Lupe Arciniega SL
Mirta & Julio Ramirez
Sandra Ardoyno SL
H. William McAtee
Barbara Ann Barbato SL
Richard Fox
All living members of
the Barrett Family
Ann Barrett SL
All our patients, especially
M. Becker & A. Muller
Cecilia & Armando Mata
Mary Beth Boesen SL
Dr. Rita L. Don
Dr. Jeffrey E. & Janice
Purcell Brower, Eleanor R.
and Lucy C. Brower
Jo Ann* & Larry Purcell
Mitsuka Bude
Vernell Rogers
Mary Rhodes Buckler SL
Warren Buckler
Edwin T. Richard
Margaret & John Veatch
Carol Nemeth Clark
Richard D. Clark
Denise Ann Clifford SL
Frances & Tim Arnoult
Priscilla & Michael O’Leary
Rosemary & Jack Oliver
Toni Walters
Denise Ann Clifford SL,
for her birthday
Margaret Rose Knoll SL
Rosemary & Jack Oliver
† Alice Cochran*
Madonna McGrath
Michaela Collins SL
Joan Schlueter
Elizabeth Ann Compton SL
Diane D. Nelson
Betty Connor*
Regina Smith
Barbara & Richard Cook
Joan & Mark Parris
Abby, Lionell & Leo Jr. Cruz
Elenita & Leonard Cruz
Patricia Cullen SL
Elizabeth & Leon Bachman
Donna Day SL
Angeline Kinnaman
Eugene Deges
Joan M. Deges
Marian Disch SL
Joan K. Donnelly
Antoinette Doyle SL
Susan & Christopher Congalton
Cynthia L. Giguere-Unrein
Carol Dunphy SL
Jackie Crawford
Lois Dunphy SL
Jackie Crawford
† Robert Leona Edelen SL
Mary C. Cusack
Wanda & James Edge
Barbara & Joseph Pawley
Marie Ego SL
Nancy & John Colvin
Tess Malumphy
Ann B. Salter
Margaret Ego
Ann B. Salter
Denise L. Elder
Sally Minelli
Todd G. & Laura Purcell Ellis,
Luke M. Ellis
Jo Ann* & Larry Purcell
Valerie De Nicola Englehardt
Henry J. De Nicola
Virginia Fetters SL
Margaret C. Shields
Peggy Fisherkeller
JoEllen Fisherkeller
Irene J. Fitch
Lee Giacolletto & Kenneth Fitch
Fr. John Gibbons
Frances Finnegan
Annie Gleason
Asherah Cinnamon
Marietta Goy SL
Mary & Glen Goy
Mark A. Hinueber
Jeannine Gramick SL
Eileen E. Burgess
Mary Alice Cronin
Vincent Giegerich
Thomas J. Monteleone
Christine V. Nusse
Ryan Ignatius Pratt
Ellen & Harry Radday
Richard R. Rivard
Mary & Richard Rock
Mary & James Russell
Dolores M. Zygowicz
Elizabeth Greene
Laurie & Charles Peterson
Mary Katherine Hammett SL
Mr. & Mrs. John F. Hammett
Joseph D. Highland
Mary A. Highland
Rita Maureen Hurtt SL
Celeste & Richard Voyles
Jean Johnson SL
Cynthia A. Martin
Cecily Jones SL
Jackie Crawford
Betty Standiford
Kienstra & Glick Families
Mary & John Glick
Robert Kirchner, Jr.
Mary Ann & Leo Kirchner
Beatrice Klebba SL
Justine & James Douglas
The Klingen Family
Rita L. Klingen
Anna Koop SL
Arthur Carbonell, Jr.
Kay Lane SL
Claudette LoPorto SL
gifts
Jennie Sedita Leman
Philip Leman
Loretto: All Sisters of Loretto
for their devotion and
dedication
Rita Kennedy Hill
Loretto: All Sisters of Loretto
who taught in Sterling, Ill.
Tom Sullivan
Loretto: In thanksgiving for the
years the sisters taught me
Verlene D. Rogalin
Loretto: All living members
of the Sisters of Loretto
Monica & Daniel O’Shea
Loretto: The sisters from Loretto
Academy, Kansas City, Mo.
Sharon A. Block
Loretto: All the sisters who
taught me
Terri & Richard Meredith
Loretto: The sisters in Nerinx, Ky.
Jeanne & Christopher Barnes
Loretto: Sisters at the Denver
Loretto Center
Minnie & William Diss
Loretto: Loretto Heights,
class of 1966
Beatrice & Jeffrey Hahn
Karen Madden SL
Kathleen & Thomas Hansen
Rosemary A. Leberer
Patricia Jean Manion SL
Jana L. Clark
Kathryn Fischbach
Rae Marie Taylor
Marian McAvoy SL
Rosemarie & John Voelker
Mary Ellen McElroy SL
Elizabeth & William Mariner
Carole & James Moore
Mary McNellis SL (formerly
Sr. Mary Cornelius)
Laverne & William Saxbury
The R. Q. Metzler, Jr. Family
Katherine & Denis McInerny
Kevin Mills
Bill Robertson
Cathy Mueller SL
Mrs. Germaine G. Knapp
Jane Frances Mueller SL
Linda & Robert Mueller
Robert J. Mueller
Robert J. Mueller
Veronica M. Murphy*
Clara Ellen Stone
Living members of
the Newton Family
Helen C. Teter
Alva Nicholas
Beatrice Senn
Molly O’Shaughnessy
Larry M. O’Shaughnessy
Rosie Orblom & Drew Strickland
Wedding
Marie Joann Rekart SL
Family & friends of
Laurel & Phillip Padgett
Laurel & Phillip Padgett
Liz Perez SL
Susan Geersen & Joanna Duenas
Rosalie Marie Phillips SL
Barbara J. McCarville
Elaine Prevallet SL
† Wanda M. Maximilien
Carol Ann Ptacek SL
Cynthia A. Martin
Vincent P. & Bettina M. Purcell,
Nicholas M. Purcell
Jo Ann* & Larry Purcell
Charlotte Rabbitt
Peggy & Dennis Rabbitt
Marie Joann Rekart SL
Carol & Donald Brunnett
Mae McFarren
Maryjo & John Pritz
Jane Marie Richardson SL
Billie Chandler
Diana Snell
Ronald Sands
Linda Sands Jenkins
Anthony Mary Sartorius SL
Cynthia A. Martin
Virginia St-Cyr
Barbara Schulte SL
Lynn & Nicholas Davis
Agnes Ann Schum SL
Eleanor & Trevor Begley
Susan Geersen & Joanna Duenas
Nancy & Fred Schweiger
Nancy & Fred Schweiger
Dr. Greg A. & Patrice Purcell
Secora, Ryan N., Conner J.
and Molly K. Secora
Jo Ann* & Larry Purcell
Jeffrey A. & Denise Purcell
Smith, Tyler J., Courtney E.
and Claire M. Smith
Jo Ann* & Larry Purcell
Joan Spero SL
Carole & James Moore
Marlene Spero SL
Lynn & Nicholas Davis
Margaret & John Veatch
Mary Swain SL
Margaret & Alan Miller
Alice Eugene Tighe SL
Elizabeth & William Mariner
Linda & Charles Winston
Kathleen Tighe SL
Claudette Lo Porto SL
Patricia Toner SL
Elizabeth & William Mariner
Kathleen Vonderhaar SL
Elizabeth & William Mariner
Lucy D. Walsh*
Sarah Walsh
Beverly S. Warnock
Marie Warnock
Ida Marie Weakland SL
Mary Lou Weakland
Living members of
the Wheatley Family
Mary W. Myers
Ann White SL
Melissa & William Gunter
Inez & J. David White
Margaret & George White
Sandra & Thomas Tokarski
Rosemary Wilcox SL
Madonna M. Lane
Ruth Ann Zook
John M. Zook
Memorial Gifts &
Tributes of Honor
designated for the
Hunger Fund
These donations were received
from October 2009 through
January 2010 in memory of or as
tributes of honor for friends and
loved ones.
In Memory of:
Requested by:
Neysa Chouteau*
Cabrini Bartolo SL
Mary Elizabeth Bundy*
Elizabeth Ann Compton SL
Angela Mary Murphy SL
Veronica M. Murphy*
Vera E. Thomas
Nancy Wittwer SL
Irngard Mahling
Carol J. Colligan*
Steve Purcell
The Thomas Merton Group
In Honor of:
Requested by:
Terri Breen
Gabriel Mary Hoare SL
Helen Cameron
Therese A. Stawowy*
Kay Carlew SL
Patty Frohlichstein
Marie Patrice Hoare SL
Gabriel Mary Hoare SL
Tom Horan
Gabriel Mary Hoare SL
Tom Jones
Therese A. Stawowy*
Joan McRobbie
Therese A. Stawowy*
Motherhouse Community
Susan Classen*
JoAnn Gates*
Lou Reimers
Therese A. Stawowy*
In gratitude of the work
of Sisters of Loretto
Thomas M. Rauch
Marie Lourde Steckler SL
Patty Frohlichstein
Patrick VanderTuin
Carol J. Colligan*
Carina Vetter SL
Doris J. Pittman
Barbara Wander*
Therese A. Stawowy*
Ann Watson
Therese A. Stawowy*
Oh yes,
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The 2010 Sisters of Loretto Golf Tournament
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