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Do
you have a special intention?
Would you like others to join with you in prayer?
Is
there sickness in your family?
Have
you recently suffered the loss of a loved one?
Are
you celebrating a joyful event or favor in your life?
Each
day our Sisters at Mont Marie gather at noonday prayer for
your intentions. They
would be happy and privileged to share your
intentions at this special time of their day.
"Prayer is our awareness of God
and our awareness of the rest of the universe.
Prayer is our commitment to each person and particle of
creation. It is our driving force in making the
stranger a neighbor, in uniting neighbor with neighbor and
neighbor with God." Sr. Mary M. Shea
Your requests are welcomed at our e-mail:
pam@ssjspringfield.org
In Memoriam
Please
join us in prayer for these recently deceased
members
of our Congregation:
 Sister
Virginia Maria Duross, (Marion),
83, beloved member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of
Springfield in her 64th year, died at Mont
Marie Health Care Center on Thursday, August 26th,
2010. A native of Chicopee, MA, she was the daughter
of Peter and Jennie (Pszybys) Duross. Sister entered
the Sisters of St. Joseph of Springfield from Holy Rosary
Parish, Holyoke, Mass. She was graduated from Holy Rosary
High School and earned an A.B. degree from the College of
Our Lady of the Elms, Chicopee.
Sister taught in
the Diocese of Worcester at Sacred Heart School, Gardner;
in the Diocese of Springfield at St. Joseph School, North
Adams and St Joseph School, Pittsfield and at Holyoke
Catholic High School. In 2002 she was honored by the
Diocese of Springfield as an outstanding teacher at
Holyoke Catholic High School where she taught English for
twenty-six years.
 Sister
Julia Frances Killelea, (Vivian),
99, beloved member of the Sisters of
St. Joseph of Springfield, in her eightieth year, died
in Mont Marie Health Care Center, Holyoke on July 2, 2010
. Born in Holyoke, she was the daughter of William and
Elizabeth (O’Brien) Killelea.
Sister was
graduated from the former Holy Rosary High School,
Holyoke. She entered the Sisters of St. Joseph from Holy
Rosary Parish. She earned a B.A. degree from the College
of Our Lady of the Elms, Chicopee.
Sister taught in
the Diocese of Springfield in Our Lady of Hope School and
Cathedral Grammar School, Springfield; St. Mary School,
Northampton, Sacred Heart School, Pittsfield, St. Mary
School, Westfield. She taught in the Worcester Diocese in
St. Peter School, Worcester, St. Mary School, Milford and
St Louis School, Webster. She also served as a nurses’
aide at Mont Marie. She became a member of St. Joseph
Retirement Residence in 1986.
 Sister
Mary Frances Sidebottom, (Martin Therese),
81, beloved member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of
Springfield in her 64th year, died at Mont
Marie Health Care Center on May 16, 2010. A native of
Waltham, MA, she was the daughter of Sydney and Eileen
(Miles) Sidebottom.
Sister entered
the Sisters of St. Joseph of Springfield from St. Louis
Parish, Webster, MA. She graduated from St Louis High
School, Webster. She earned an A.B. degree from the
College of Our Lady of the Elms in Chicopee, MA, a M. Ed
from Worcester State, Worcester, MA and a Master degree in
Theology from Providence College, Providence, RI.
Sister served in
the Dioceses of Springfield, Worcester, and Fall River,
MA; Providence, RI and Lake Charles, LA. In 2006 she
moved to St. Joseph Retirement Residence at Mont Marie and
later entered Mont Marie Health Care Center, Holyoke, MA.
 Sister Rita
Deschenes, (Marie Xavier),
beloved member of the Sisters of St. Joseph in her 55th
year, died at Mont Marie Health Care Center on January 25,
2010. She was born in Fall River, MA, the daughter of
Albert and Bermonde (Lemieux) Deschenes. She entered the
Sisters of St. Joseph of LePuy in Fall River in 1955 from
St. Jean Baptiste Parish in Fall River and became a member
of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Springfield when the two
Congregations merged in 1974. She attended high school at
Jesus Marie Academy and received a BA degree from Annhurst
College. She later earned an MA degree in religious
studies from Providence College.
Among Sister’s
teaching assignments were St. Michael’s in Ocean Grove,
St. Louis School in Swansea, St. Matthew’s, Fall River,
and St. Joseph School, Vinton, LA. She also taught at St.
Joseph High School, Conway, Arkansas and directed the
Religious Education program. Sister’s most recent ministry
was to the members of St. Joseph’s Parish in DeRidder,
Louisiana, as Director of Religious Education and Pastoral
Minister. Sister served in this ministry for the past
thirty-one years.
 Sister
Rita Rafferty,
(Sr. Rose Thomas),
91, beloved member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of
Springfield in her 72nd year, died at Mont Marie Health
Care Center on December 26, 2009. She was born in Webster,
MA, the daughter of Thomas and Rose (O'Brien) Rafferty.
Sister entered the Sisters of St. Joseph of Springfield
from St. Louis Parish, Webster. She was graduated from St.
Louis High School. She earned A.B. and M.A. degrees from
the College of Our Lady of the Elms, Chicopee, MA.
Sister taught
her entire career in the Springfield Diocese, serving in
St. Joseph, Pittsfield; Holy Name, Springfield; Immaculate
Conception, Easthampton; Sacred Heart, Holyoke; Holy
Trinity, Greenfield, and St. Michael's, Northampton. For
thirty years she taught at Cathedral High School in
Springfield.
 Sister
Patricia B. Kane, (Sr. Geraldine Maria)
79, beloved member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of
Springfield for 62 years, died at Mont Marie Health Care
Center in Holyoke on October 27, 2009. Born in Worcester,
Mass., she was the daughter of Patrick and Geraldine
(Shea) Kane. Sister entered the Sisters of St. Joseph of
Springfield from St. Peter Parish, Worcester. She was
graduated from St. Peter High School, Worcester, earned a
B.A. from the College of Our Lady of the Elms, Chicopee,
an M.A from Marquette University in Speech/Drama, and an
M.S. in Mass Communications from Boston University.
Sister taught in
the schools of the Springfield Diocese at Sacred Heart,
Holyoke, St. Joseph, North Adams, St. Charles, Pittsfield
and Cathedral High School, Springfield and in the
Worcester Diocese at St. Mary School, Southbridge. She
taught on the faculties of St. Rose College, Albany, NY,
The College of St. Joseph, Rutland, VT and Tangaza
College, Nairobi, Kenya. She served in Catholic
Communications Ministry for the Diocese of Springfield,
including the Chalice of Salvation, and in Radio and TV
for the Diocese of Hartford. Most recently she was
co-director of Clementwood Spiritual Life Center in
Rutland, VT.
 Sister
Mary Richard Tyrrell, (Anna E.),102,
beloved member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Springfield
for 83 years, died at Mont Marie Health Care Center,
Holyoke, on July 5th, 2009. A native of Dudley,
Mass., she was the daughter of Richard and Mary (Harbort)
Tyrrell. She entered the Sisters of St. Joseph of
Springfield from St. Louis Parish in Webster, Mass. She
was graduated from St. Louis High School and earned an A.B.
degree from the College of Our Lady of the Elms, Chicopee,
Mass.
Sister taught in
the Diocese of Springfield at Blessed Sacrament School and
Sacred Heart School, Holyoke; Annunciation School and St.
Mary School, Northampton and St. Patrick School,
Chicopee. She taught in the Diocese of Worcester at St.
Peter School and in the Diocese of Providence at St. Rose
of Lima School, Warwick. She also served in staff
positions in the Springfield Diocesan School Office and at
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart and Our Lady of Hope
parishes, Springfield. She retired in 1993.
For a more
complete
list of deceased members of our Congregation, please
click here.
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