Missioner-educator served in the Marshall Islands, Hawaii Maryknoll Sister Mary Camilla Kennedy, missioner-educator to Hawaii and the Marshall Islands, died on Dec. 14 at the Maryknoll Sisters Home Care, Maryknoll, N.Y. She was 88 years old and celebrated 70 years as a Maryknoll Sister this year. Born in Syracuse, N.Y., on June 20, 1926, Sister […]
Obituary: Maryknoll Sister Helen Louise Gleason | 1929-2014
Missionary educator taught here for more than 30 years Maryknoll Sister Helen Louise Gleason, who spent half of her 63 years in religious life as a teacher in Hawaii parish schools, died Sept. 11 at Maryknoll Sisters Center, Maryknoll, New York. She was 85. Sister Helen was assigned to Hawaii three times, in 1956, 1980 […]
Obituary: Maryknoll Sister Margaret Frances Kulage | 1907-2014
Congregation’s oldest member, 107, served in Hawaii and the Philippines Maryknoll Sister Margaret Frances Kulage, who survived a boat capsizing in shark-infested Philippine waters and teaching assignments in Kalihi to become her congregation’s oldest member, died Aug. 28 at age 107 at the Maryknoll Sisters Home Care IV in Maryknoll, N.Y. She was a Maryknoll […]
Memorial Mass for Maryknoll Sister Marie Patrice Kehoe
A memorial Mass will be celebrated for Maryknoll Sister Marie Patrice Kehoe at 5 p.m., Aug. 22, at Sacred Hearts Church in Honolulu. Sister Marie Patrice, a native of New York City, died Aug. 9 at Maryknoll Center in Ossining, N.Y. She was 91 and a Maryknoll Sister for 73 years. She came to Hawaii […]
Viriditas: Sister Lourdes Fernandez, Maryknoll Sisters
The energy of the grace of God Mission is adventure. When the U.S. bishops, through the LCWR (Leadership Council of Women Religious) invited religious of different congregations to volunteer to go to Albania in the 1990s, I said, “Yes.” I had the openness and the enthusiasm to go. I had never been to Europe or […]
Obituary: Maryknoll Sister Mary Elizabeth Driscoll, missioner for 70 years, taught in Hawaii
Maryknoll Sister Mary Elizabeth Driscoll, who taught in Catholic grade schools for a decade in post-war Hawaii, died peacefully on Oct. 2 at Phelps Memorial Hospital in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. She was 90. She had celebrated 70 years as a Maryknoll Sister on Sept. 7. Hawaii was Sister Mary Elizabeth’s first assignment as a Maryknoll […]
Viriditas: Sister Yoo Soo Kim, Maryknoll Sisters
Seasons of God’s beautiful creation “When I enter my studio, I feel the sacred air. Brightness of the candle flame, smoke of the incense, and smell of tea … At that moment my heart becomes pure, An armful of flowers in the sacred air, softness of sea air … As I fill my room with […]
Obituary: Maryknoll Sister Blanche Thiel served in Hawaii for 20 years
Maryknoll Sister Blanche M. Thiel, a chaplain, pastoral worker and dietary researcher who served 20 years in Hawaii, died Aug. 29 at a Maryknoll Sisters care home in Ossining, N.Y. She was 87 and a religious sister for 64 years. Sister Blanche came to Hawaii in 1971, serving first as a dietician and cook at […]
Obituary: Maryknoll Sister Catherine Margaret Carden helped develop diocese’s first CCD program
Sister Catherine Margaret Carden, one of a team of two Maryknoll sisters who in 1946 created the first Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (CCD) program for the Diocese of Honolulu, died July 25 in Maryknoll, N.Y. She was 93 years old and a Maryknoll Sister for 73 years. Hawaii was her first assignment as a Maryknoll […]
Obituary: Maryknoll Sister Leonila Bermisa, formerly of Hawaii, was a lawyer, author, women’s rights advocate
Maryknoll Sister Leonila Bermisa, the Hawaii lawyer who joined the missionary order in 1982 from Our Lady of the Mount Parish in Kalihi Valley to serve for many years in the Philippines, died in Manila on Feb. 28 at age 64. She was a Maryknoll Sister for 30 years. She had been battling cancer. Sister […]
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