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 […]
Two Maryknoll Sisters, former Hawaii teachers, mark 75th anniversaries
Two Maryknoll Sisters who served for decades in Hawaii marked their 75th anniversaries of religious life last month at the Maryknoll Sisters Center, near Ossining, N.Y. Sister Eugenie Therese Courtright and Sister Leona Michiels, both of whom taught in Hawaii schools in the Islands’ pre- and post-statehood days, celebrated their milestones at a Mass in […]
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