Sister Josephine Rooney, R.S.H.M.

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Sister Josephine Rooney, R.S.H.M., who taught for 11 years at Marymount School of New York in Manhattan, died Feb. 23 at Marymount Convent in Tarrytown. She was 97.

Sister Josephine was at Marymount School of New York, 1968-1975 and 1946-1950. She served at St. Augustine’s Parish,

Larchmont, 1980-1986, and St. Anthony’s Center, the Bronx, 1975-1979; and taught at Sacred Heart of Mary Academy, the Bronx, 1950.

She also served in Queens, Sag Harbor, Missouri, Brazil and Colombia.

Born in County Down, Ireland, she entered the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary in 1941 and professed final vows in 1949.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Marymount College, Tarrytown.

A Funeral Mass was offered Feb. 29 in Marymount Convent. Burial was in Mount Calvary Cemetery, White Plains.

Sister Josephine Rooney, R.S.H.M.