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Sister Mary Saunders, S.A.

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Sister Mary Saunders, S.A., a Franciscan Sister of the Atonement from St. Francis Convent in Graymoor, died Oct. 26 at New York Presbyterian-Hudson Valley Hospital in Cortland Manor. She was 92.

Sister Mary served in the retreat ministry at Our Lady of the Atonement Retreat House in Graymoor, 1978-80, and returned there in 2005.

She also served in parish and catechetical ministries in New Jersey, Maine, Oregon, Georgia and California as well as in Canada and Ireland.

A native of Ireland, Sister Mary entered the Franciscan Sisters of Atonement in 1945 and professed final vows in 1954.

She is survived by her sister, Sister Roseanne Saunders, S.A., and by her brothers, Thomas and James.

Her Funeral Mass was offered Nov. 1 at the motherhouse chapel at St. Francis Convent.

Burial followed in the Sisters’ cemetery in Graymoor.

Sister Mary Saunders, S.A.