Sister Bernadette Desrochers, C.N.D.

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Sister Bernadette Desrochers, C.N.D., who served nearly 40 years as a teacher and bursar at Notre Dame Academy on Staten Island, died May 20 at Andrus on Hudson in Hastings-on-Hudson. She was 84.

Sister Bernadette taught French at Notre Dame Academy, Staten Island, 1978-1990, and served as bursar, 1990-2017. She earlier taught in high schools in Connecticut, Vermont and Rhode Island.

Born in St. Johnsbury, Vt., she entered the Congregation of Notre Dame in 1956 and made final vows in 1964. She held a bachelor’s degree in English from Notre Dame College of Staten Island, and a master’s in French from Laval University in Quebec City, Quebec.

A Funeral Mass was offered May 23 at Villa Notre Dame in Wilton, Conn. Burial was at St. Peter Cemetery in Danbury, Conn.

Sister Bernadette Desrochers, C.N.D.