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Sister Mary Jeanne Therese Oshrin, M.M., who converted to Catholicism as a young woman and became a Maryknoll missioner to the Philippines and Hawaii, died Dec. 11 at the Maryknoll Residential Care IV. She was 92.
She was assigned to the Philippines in 1948. She was secretary to Sister Marian Thomas, M.M., who was president of Maryknoll College in Manila. In 1960 she was assigned to Hawaii where she served as a secretary and teacher at a school in Maui for six years.
She returned to the Philippines in 1968 to resume secretarial duties at Maryknoll College, now in Quezon City. She later did administration and fund-raising work at an institute for primary health care in Davao City.
She was assigned to Maryknoll in Ossining in 1979 and served in the Sisters’ Center until retiring in 2004.
Born in Brooklyn to parents who were Lithuanian Jewish immigrants, she became interested in Catholicism and converted after high school. She entered the Maryknoll Sisters in 1936 and made final vows in 1945.
A Funeral Mass was offered Dec. 21 in the main chapel at the Maryknoll Sisters’ Center in Ossining. Burial was in the sisters’ cemetery.
