Sister Emily Zent, 97, an Ursuline Sister of Mount Saint Joseph, died Dec. 30, 2008, at Mount Saint Joseph. She was in her 78th year of religious life. A native of Mott, N.D., she was an Ursuline Sister of Belleville, Ill., before the merger of that community with the Ursulines of Mount Saint Joseph in…
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Sister Rose Emma Monaghan, OSU
Sister Rose Emma Monaghan, 93, an Ursuline Sister of Mount Saint Joseph, died Dec. 27, 2008, at Mount Saint Joseph, in her 75th year of religious life. She was a native of Percival, Iowa. She especially enjoyed being a high school teacher, teaching at St. William High School, Knottsville (1939-42), St. Alphonsus High School, St.…
Sister Walter Louise Lush, OSU
Sister Walter Louise Lush, 94, an Ursuline Sister of Mount Saint Joseph, died Dec. 23, 2008, at Mount Saint Joseph, in her 72nd year of religious life. A native of Wax, Ky., she was an educator for 32 years. Her ministry included St. Anthony School, Browns Valley (1950-51), St. Lawrence School, St. Lawrence (1951-55), and St.…
Sister Elizabeth Ann Ray, OSU
Sister Elizabeth Ann Ray, 98, an Ursuline Sister of Mount Saint Joseph, died Nov. 16, 2008, at Mount Saint Joseph, in her 79th year of religious life. She was a native of Rhodelia in Meade County. An educator for 54 years, Sister Elizabeth Ann was much loved by all the sisters. She worked quietly in…
Sister Mary Irene Cecil, OSU: Spiritual quiet fires still burns
Sisters in Ministry Update: In 2009, Sister Mary Irene Cecil left her ministry as co-director of pastoral care and spent the next nine years as a seamstress for the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph at the Motherhouse. She went to heaven on Dec. 22, 2018. Sister Mary Irene Cecil began her years as an…
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Sister Joseph Adrian Russell, OSU
Sister Joseph Adrian Russell, 94, an Ursuline Sister of Mount Saint Joseph, died August 3, at Mount Saint Joseph, in her 75th year of religious life. She was a native of Louisville. She had a smile that could light up a room. An educator for 48 years, she taught at St. Elizabeth School, Curdsville (1935),…
Sister Margaret Ann Zinselmeyer, OSU: “She’s worth her weight in diamonds…”
Sister Margaret Ann Zinselmeyer has never been one to ask many questions. Not when the mother superior of the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph came to visit her and offered her a chance to join a community she’d never seen. Not when an opportunity came to run a day care center for children infected…
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Sister Charlesine Bowling, OSU
Sister Charlesine Bowling, 96, an Ursuline Sister of Mount Saint Joseph, died April 3, 2008, at Mount Saint Joseph, in her 77th year of religious life. A native of Athertonville in Larue County, she was an educator for 55 years. She grew up in a deeply Catholic home, where her parents often prayed, sang, and…
Sister Mary Lois Speaks, OSU: “My passion is to speak of the Lord”
Update: Sister Mary Lois Speaks died May 6, 2017 As she passed a water fountain in the hallway of Marion County High School in Lebanon, Ky., Sister Mary Lois Speaks stopped and made sure the handle was pushed to the “off” position. “We have 89 percent of the world without clean drinking water, and we…
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Sister Eileen Mullen, OSU
Sister Eileen Mullen, 95, an Ursuline Sister of Mount Saint Joseph, died March 12, 2008, at Mount Saint Joseph. She was in her 78th year of religious life. A native of Fortuna, N.D., she was an Ursuline Sister of Belleville, Ill., before the merger of that community with the Ursulines of Mount Saint Joseph in…