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Sister Barbara Anne Masterson, M.M., who was a nurse in Bolivia and in the archdiocese, died July 3 at Maryknoll Sisters Center in Ossining. She was 89.
Her first assignment was at Bethany House in Ossining, where she cared for infirm and elderly Maryknoll Sisters. Later, she served at a tuberculosis hospital run by Maryknoll in Monrovia, Calif. In 1959, she was assigned to Hawaii, where she served at a children’s home in Paia and a convent in Wailuku.
In 1974, she received her first overseas mission assignment to the Pando Vicariate, Bolivia, where she was a hospital nurse. She was a public health worker in Cobija, 1975-1979. She worked with the archdiocesan Family Life Center in Cochabamba, 1979-1987, and did health care work for women at a parish there, 1991-2001.
Sister Barbara Anne served in the Maryknoll Sisters’ Health Service Department, 1987-1991. She retired to Monrovia in 2001 and returned to Maryknoll Sisters Center in 2008.
Born in Syracuse, she entered the Maryknoll Sisters in 1947 and professed final vows in 1953. She was formerly known as Sister Rose Christelle.
She studied at SUNY Brockport, where she received a bachelor’s degree in nursing. She also studied at St. Francis Hospital School of Nursing in Hartford, Conn.
She is survived by a brother, Charles Jr., and three sisters, Irene, Genevieve and Mary.
A Funeral Mass was offered July 6 in Annunciation Chapel at Maryknoll Sisters Center. Burial was in Maryknoll Sisters Cemetery.
