Sister Mary Landy, S.C.

Sister Mary Landy, S.C., who became a patient representative at St. Vincent's Hospital after a career in education, died Dec. 10 at Convent of Mary the Queen in Yonkers. She was 89. She joined St. Vincent's, in Greenwich Village, in 1978 as a ward clerk, serving five years in the post. She then was a patient representative on staff, 1986-1995, and a volunteer, 1995-2001. She was chairman of the social studies department at Cathedral High School, 1965-1978, and a teacher, 1954-1957. She was principal of St. Agatha's School, Nanuet, 1957-1960 and 1953-1954; and a teacher at Holy Cross Academy, Manhattan, 1960-1965, and at St. Elizabeth Seton School, Yonkers, 1943-1951. She was a receptionist at St. Teresa's parish on Manhattan's Lower East Side, 1983-1986. Born in Manhattan, she entered the Sisters of Charity of New York in 1943 and took the religious name Sister Maria Ignatius. She professed final vows in 1949. She held a bachelor's degree from the College of Mount St. Vincent and a master's degree from Fordham University. Surviving are two brothers, author and educator Father Joseph V. Landy, S.J., and John Landy. Sister Mary was predeceased by a brother, James Landy, and two sisters, Kathleen Landy and Mother Eleanor Landy, R.S.C.J. The Funeral Mass was offered Dec. 13 in Mary the Queen Convent, with burial in St. Joseph's Cemetery, Yonkers.