Sister Judy Cagney, R.S.C.J.

Sister Judy Cagney, R.S.C.J., a longtime treasurer of the U.S. Province of the Society of the Sacred Heart who more recently was director of finance for the Little Sisters of the Assumption, died Nov. 3 after a brief illness. She was 75.

In 2001, she moved to New York City to serve as director of finance for the Little Sisters of the Assumption until her retirement in 2010.

In 1982, she began a 20-year ministry as the treasurer of the U.S. Province of the Society of the Sacred Heart, based in St. Louis. She served on the U.S. provincial team, 1988-1993.

Her first assignment was in 1962 at a boys’ preparatory school in Chicago, where she also was dean of students for a year. She later taught and served as dean at Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart in Omaha, Neb., and at Barat College in Lake Forest, Ill., where she was an alumna.

After four years on the provincial team of the Society’s Chicago Province, she returned to Barat College, where she was president for eight years.

Born in Evanston, Ill., she entered the Society of the Sacred Heart in 1958 and made her final vows in Rome in 1966. She earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Barat College and a master’s in philosophy from Fordham University.

Her sister, Joan Meyer, and brother, Richard, survive her.

A Funeral Mass was offered Nov. 6 in the chapel of the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Manhattan. Burial took place the next day at the Society of the Sacred Heart Cemetery in the Kenwood section of Albany.