Sister Marielle Schmitt, O.P.

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Sister Marielle Schmitt, O.P., a teacher at Our Lady of Mercy School in the Bronx for five years, died Jan. 15 at St. Dominic Villa in Hazel Green, Wis. She was 100.

Sister Marielle taught at Our Lady of Mercy, 1951-1956. She also served in Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin and Washington, D.C.

Born in Whitewater, Wis., she entered the Sinsinawa Dominicans in 1936 and professed final vows in 1941.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Edgewood College, Madison, Wis., and a master’s in English education from College of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minn.

A Funeral Mass was celebrated Jan. 23 at the motherhouse in Sinsinawa. Burial was in the motherhouse cemetery.

Sister Marielle Schmitt, O.P.