Sister Joan Crevcoure, M.M.

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Sister Joan Crevcoure, M.M., who taught at St. Anthony School in the Bronx and wrote a book about mission work in the Marshall Islands, died Oct. 18 at the Maryknoll Sisters Center in Ossining. She was 93.

Sister Joan taught at St. Anthony, 1949-1950, her first teaching assignment. The rest of her missionary life was spent in Hawaii and Majuro in the outer Marshall Islands, teaching in elementary school and middle school levels.

From the early 1970s into the 1990s, she served in the Marshall Islands helping to form basic Christian communities. She helped develop two small elementary schools, created CCD programs, and trained adults to be prayer leaders, religious education instructors and elementary school teachers.

In 2004, Sister Joan retired to the Maryknoll Sisters Center in Monrovia, Calif. She remained active in volunteer work, and she wrote and published a book called “Ocean Pathways, the Story of the Maryknoll Sisters’ Mission Work in the Marshall Islands.” In 2015, she relocated to the Maryknoll Sisters Center in Ossining.

Her body has been donated to science. A Memorial Mass was offered Nov. 4 in Annunciation Chapel at the Maryknoll Sisters Center.

Sister Joan Crevcoure, M.M.