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Sister Elizabeth Brinkmann, R.S.C.J.

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Sister Elizabeth Brinkmann, R.S.C.J., who taught at the College of New Rochelle and served at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Manhattan, died April 29 after an illness. She was 53.

She taught religious studies at the College of New Rochelle, 2003-2011. Starting in February of this year, she directed mission programs for parents and alumnae at the Convent of the Sacred Heart.

Born in Geneva, Switzerland, she became an American citizen in 1985. She entered the Society of the Sacred Heart in 2000 and professed her final vows in Rome in 2013.

Before joining the order, she worked as an electrical engineer and then a parish youth minister.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Rice University, Houston, Tex. She received a master’s in systematic theology from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, Cal., while serving as a hospital chaplain and ethicist at California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco. She also earned a doctoral degree in theological ethics from Boston College.

Sister Elizabeth taught ethics part time at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, 2001-2003, while she was in the novitiate. She returned there to teach in 2011.

Her mother Ursula Brinkmann; her sister Anne Birch; and brothers, Peter and Johannes, survive her.

A Funeral Mass was offered May 9 at the chapel of the Convent of the Sacred Heart. Burial was at the Society of the Sacred Heart cemetery at Kenwood in Albany.

Sister Elizabeth Brinkmann, R.S.C.J.