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Sister Ann Marie Conroy, R.S.C.J.

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Sister Ann Marie Conroy, R.S.C.J., who served for 30 years at Manhattanville College in Purchase, died Aug. 5 in Atherton, Calif. She was 91.

She began her service at Manhattanville College soon after her final vows and held positions as an educator, dean of students and, most recently, as a trustee, 2006-2015.

She was provincial of the Society of the Sacred Heart’s New York Province, 1975-1982. During that time, the Society of the Sacred Heart moved to a one-province structure for the United States and Canada. She traveled internationally to Latin America, Kenya, Egypt, Mexico and England; attended two general chapters; and assisted with long-term planning for sisters in the Congo. She was involved in the re-writing the society’s constitutions in 1982, and gave workshops on them in Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan and Japan.

She served her community as mistress of novices and spiritual director. In Chicago, she served on the Interprovincial Board.

She volunteered as an English tutor at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison for women, 1995-2002.

She served on the boards of schools in Michigan and California. She served as assistant head and interim upper school director at Convent of the Sacred Heart in Greenwich, Conn.

Born in Belle Harbor, Queens, she was raised in Manhattan. She held bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history, both from Manhattanville College, and also received a doctorate in humane letters from Manhattanville.

She entered the Society of the Sacred Heart in 1959 and professed final vows in 1967.

In 2012, she moved to the Oakwood retirement center for the sisters in Atherton.

A Funeral Mass was to be celebrated on Saturday, Aug. 20, at 10 a.m., at Oakwood Chapel in St. Louis. Burial will take place in the Kenwood Cemetery in Albany.

Sister Ann Marie Conroy, R.S.C.J.