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Sister Louise Lundergan, R.S.C.J., who taught at schools operated by her congregation, the Religious of the Sacred Heart, in the United States and Brazil, died July 20 at Teresian House in Albany. She was 100.
After leaving education, she was a social worker for the St. Vincent de Paul Society in San Francisco for 15 years and a volunteer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan from 1991 to 1997.
She taught and was an administrator at schools in Illinois, Nebraska, Missouri and California, including a stint as academic dean at her alma mater, Barat College, Lake Forest, Ill. From 1957 to 1970 she taught at a Sacred Heart school and did community work in one of the poorest sections of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Born in Marion, Ohio, she entered the Religious of the Sacred Heart in 1932 and professed final vows in Albany in 1940. She held a bachelor’s degree in English from Barat College and a master’s in philosophy from Loyola University in Chicago.
A Funeral Mass was celebrated July 25 at the Teresian House Chapel. Burial took place in Kenwood Cemetery in Albany.
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