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Nov 1, 2009

Article: Sister Mary Dorothy Worked with girls, young women Article from: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) Article date: May 6, 1992 CopyrightCopyright 1992 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)

Sister Mary Dorothy of the Convent of the Good Shepherd in Marlborough, who devoted much of her life to teaching young women vocational skills, died Monday in the Cranberry Pointe nursing home in Harwich. She was 91.

Sister Mary Dorothy, who was born Rita Callanan in Everett, had been a nun for 71 years.

She was educated in Malden Schools and entered the Good Shepherd novitiate in 1921 in Peekskill, N.Y. There she was trained as a child care worker for youngsters with home, family and school problems.

Her first assignment after her profession in 1924 was in Brooklyn, N.Y., where she taught vocational skills to young girls.

After she made her final vows in 1927, she was assigned to the ...

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Sister Mary Dorothy Worked with girls, young women Article from: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) Article date: May 6, 1992 CopyrightCopyright 1992 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)  

Sister Mary Dorothy of the Convent of the Good Shepherd in Marlborough, who devoted much of her life to teaching young women vocational skills, died Monday in the Cranberry Pointe nursing home in Harwich. She was 91.

Sister Mary Dorothy, who was born Rita Callanan in Everett, had been a nun for 71 years.

She was educated in Malden Schools and entered the Good Shepherd novitiate in 1921 in Peekskill, N.Y. There she was trained as a child care worker for youngsters with home, family and school problems.

Her first assignment after her profession in 1924 was in Brooklyn, N.Y., where she taught vocational skills to young girls.

After she made her final vows in 1927, she was assigned to the ...

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SISTER MARY LEONARD ORDER OF GOOD SHEPHERD; 84 Article from: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) Article date: June 5, 1989 CopyrightCopyright (null) The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)

Sister Mary Leonard, RGS, a sister of the Good Shepherd for 57 years, died yesterday after a brief illness in Marlborough Hospital. She was 84.

Sister Mary Leonard was born Mary J. Adan in Dorchester, and graduated from Dorchester High School in 1922. She received a certificate from Fisher Business College in 1923.

In 1926 she entered the Good Shepherd Novitiate in Peekskill, N.Y., and prepared to become a child-care worker. Following her profession in 1929 she was missioned to Troy, N.Y., where she became sacristan and assistant supervisor of child care.

In 1931 Sister Mary Leonard was assigned to the former Huntington Avenue Good Shepherd center where she became assistant ...

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SISTER MARY EDITH, 89 WAS TEACHER AND PRINCIPAL Article from: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) Article date: February 20, 1990 CopyrightCopyright (null) The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
said at 9 a.m. tomorrow at Madonna Hall in the Good Shepherd Convent Chapel in Marlborough for Sister Mary Edith, RGS, who had been with the order for 69 years. Sister Mary Edith died Sunday in Beth Israel Hospital. She was 89.

Sister Mary Edith, the former Ethel Veronica Young, was born in Providence, where she graduated from St. Mary's Academy in 1918. She entered the Good Shepherd Novitiate in New York City in 1921 and was professed in Peekskill, N.Y., in 1923, where she made her final vows in 1927.

After profession, Sister Mary Edith was assigned to Saint Anne's Institute in Albany as a teacher and music director until 1927. She was a child care worker ...

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Article: Sister Mary Patrick, worked with troubled teen-agers; at 82 Article from: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) Article date: October 22, 1994  

Sister Mary Patrick (Margaret Mary Mulligan) of the Sisters of a Good Shepherd, who spent much of her 52 years in the order working with troubled teen-age girls, died Sunday in the Cranberry Pointe Health Care Center in Harwich. She was 82.

Sister Mary Patrick was born in New York and graduated from St. Elizabeth's School in Woodhaven N.Y., where she excelled in dramatics and often played a leading role in parish plays.

After graduating from Heffley's Business School in New York, she entered the Good Shepherd novitiate in Peekskill, N.Y., in 1942 and professed her final vows on May 7, 1945.

After completing training as a childcare worker, Sister Mary Patrick became director of childcare ...

 

 
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Lillian D. (41) 		Monday November 2, 2009, 10:54 am
God Bless them all the sister were so good with us.Lillian

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