Born at Mortons Gap, Ky., on March 10, 1899, Juanita was the daughter of Thomas Hansby and Henrietta Morgan Sisk. Juanita was a teenager when her mother died and the family members were taken by relatives who placed the three youngest girls at Mount Saint Joseph Academy in 1913. The family was not Catholic but Sister Aloysius Willett accepted the girls. On October 5, 1915, Juanita and her younger sister Anna were baptized by Father Louis Hilary Spalding, MSJ chaplain. Catherine, the oldest, resisted the idea of being a Catholic and wanted to know more about her responsibilities. Juanita continued her studies at the Academy until she entered the novitiate on January 21, 1917. During Juanita’s postulancy, Catherine was baptized by Father Spalding on March 18. Then on May 2 that same year, Juanita received the Ursuline habit and the name Sister Angelica.
Having prepared for the teaching apostolate, Sister Angelica’s first mission was St. Rose School in Cloverport, Ky., where she taught the first six grades for seven years. Sister Angelica, always a primary teacher, then taught in various Kentucky parochial and public schools for 17 years and also had a year of study at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas. She served as mistress of novices for three years and returned to teaching in the diocesan parochial schools for the next 16 years.
Sister Angelica retired from teaching and returned to Mount Saint Joseph in 1965. In her final days she had a mysterious failure of her mind that no one seemed able to explain. Death came to her on August 12, 1970, and her funeral Mass was celebrated by Father Bernard Powers, MSJ chaplain. Sister Angelica was buried in the convent cemetery. Her two sisters -‑ Sister Mary Martin (Catherine) and Sister Benedict Joseph (Anna) -‑ had preceded her in death.