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Sister Rosemarie Bittermann, S.C., a teacher for 13 years at St. Joseph’s School in Florida, Orange County, died March 6 at Kittay Senior Apartments in the Bronx. She was 96.
Sister Rosemarie taught at St. Joseph, 1981-1994. She was at Nativity of Our Blessed Lady, the Bronx, 1971-1981; St. Barnabas Elementary, the Bronx, 1968-1971; St. Francis Xavier, Manhattan, 1962-1968; Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Manhattan, 1960-1962; St. Mary of the Snow, Saugerties, 1954-1960; Immaculate Heart of Mary, Scarsdale, 1945-1954; Seton Academy, Yonkers, 1944-1945; Holy Cross Academy, Manhattan, 1943-1944; and Academy of Mount St. Vincent, the Bronx, 1941-1942.
She volunteered at St. Peter Convent, Yonkers, 2002-2007, and St. Peter’s School, Yonkers, 1994-2002.
Born in Saugerties, she entered the Sisters of Charity of New York in 1941 and professed final vows in 1947.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in Spanish from the College of Mount St. Vincent, and a master’s in education from Manhattan College.
Her sisters, Betty Martin and Dorothy Neely, survive her. A Funeral Mass was offered March 12 in the Mount St. Vincent Convent Assembly Room, the Bronx. Her cremains will be buried in St. Agatha Cemetery, Nanuet.
