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Sister Brendan Rooney, S.A.

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Sister Brendan Rooney, S.A., who was a catechist and pastoral minister, died Dec. 12 at the Lurana Health Care Residence of St. Francis Convent at Graymoor in Garrison. She was 97.

She served at St. Cecilia’s parish in East Harlem in 1945. She taught the arts and crafts class. She worked on a parish census and visited parishioners. She also taught religious education and kindergarten classes. She served in catechetical and pastoral ministries in Ogdensburg, Morrisonville and Schenectady; Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania and California; and Ireland and Canada.

Born in County Leitrim, Ireland, she entered the Franciscan Sisters of the Atonement in 1935 in Ireland and arrived at Graymoor the next year. She professed final vows in 1943.

A Funeral Mass was offered Dec. 16 in the chapel at St. Francis Convent. Burial was in the sisters’ cemetery.

Sister Brendan Rooney, S.A.