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Sister Mary H. Kane, who was a licensed practical nurse and also worked with elderly persons, died Sept. 20 at Maryknoll Sisters Residential Care at Maryknoll. She was 93.
She became a licensed practical nurse while serving at Queen of the World Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., 1956-1967. In the era of segregation, the hospital was begun by the Maryknoll Sisters as an interracial institution providing a place for black doctors and medical staff to work.
In California, she worked in the emergency room of the San Joaquin County Hospital, 1967-1977, then became coordinator of the senior citizen program at a parish in Sacramento. She was nutrition site manager at a senior center in San Jose, 1979-1985, then visited the sick and elderly in their homes. She returned to Maryknoll in Ossining in 2002.
Born in Fitchburg, Mass., she entered Maryknoll in 1937 and professed final vows in 1943. Formerly she was known as Sister M. Helen Agnes.
She did social work and cared for children in Hawaii, 1946-1951.
Surviving are two sisters, Irene Buchanan and Agnes Sullivan.
A Funeral Mass was offered Sept. 25 in the Maryknoll Sisters Chapel, with burial in the sisters’ cemetery.
