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Sister Mary Angeline McCormick

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Sister Mary Angeline McCormick, who was interned by the Japanese while serving in the Philippines during World War II and later served in Japan, died Jan. 7 at Maryknoll Residential Care III. She was 96.

She was assigned to the Philippines in 1938 and taught in Malabon until 1942, when Japanese forces interned her and other Maryknoll sisters in a camp in Los Banos. U.S. forces of the 11th Airborne Division liberated the camp on Feb. 23, 1945, and she was repatriated to the United States.

In 1970, she was assigned to Japan where she resided in Kobe while writing a short historical novel for Maryknoll Publications. She also taught English and counseled at Kansai University. She returned to the United States in 1975 to serve in health services at the Bethany Infirmary in Ossining.

She went back to Japan in 1979 to teach English to adults. She also wrote a history, “Japan Journal of the Maryknoll Sisters to June 1981.” She returned to the United States in 1995.

She taught at St. Anthony of Padua School, the Bronx, 1945-1946, and Transfiguration, Manhattan, 1948-1949.

Born in Caledonia, Minn., she entered Maryknoll in 1935 and professed final vows in 1941 in the Philippines.

A Funeral Mass was offered Jan. 13 in the main chapel of the Maryknoll Sisters Center in Ossining. Burial was in the sisters’ cemetery.

Sister Mary Angeline McCormick