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Sister Loretta Butler, O.P., who served as associate dean at Mount St. Mary College in Newburgh for 10 years, died Nov. 27 at Siena Hall in Dominican Convent, Sparkill. She was 93.
Sister Loretta was at Mount St. Mary, 1986-1996. She was associate dean of education at Fordham University, 1975-1979; instructor at St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, 1974-1975; teacher at Aquinas High School, the Bronx, 1970-1971; principal of Cathedral High School Annex, the Bronx, 1968-1969, where she taught, 1955-1958; and teacher at Albertus Magnus High School, Bardonia, 1959-1968.
She held college posts, including as researcher for OPUS, a collaborative research project of the Dominican Sisters Conference in St. Louis; assistant dean at Bowling Green State University, Toledo, Ohio; dean of education at Regis College, Denver; and a visiting scholar at The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. She received a Fulbright grant in Pakistan and later taught there. She retired in 2005.
Sister Loretta taught at two elementary schools in Missouri, 1944-1955.
Born in St. Louis, she entered the Dominican Sisters of Sparkill in 1942 and made final vows in 1949. She held a bachelor’s degree in French from Fontbonne College in St. Louis; a bachelor’s and master’s in art from Pius XII Institute in Florence, Italy; a master’s in French from Columbia University; and a doctorate in educational psychology from Fordham.
She is survived by her brother, Russ Butler, and her sisters, Dorothy Heldman and Lois Wiepreck.
A Funeral Mass was offered Dec. 6 at Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel, Sparkill. Burial was at St. Agnes Cemetery, Sparkill.
