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Sister Shirley Ann Peace, O.S.F.

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Sister Shirley Ann Peace, O.S.F., a former Navy nurse, counselor and clinical psychologist, died March 7 at the Wartburg Adult Living Community in Mount Vernon. She was 73.

Sister Shirley Ann most recently served as one of the East Coast regional ministers for the Sisters of St. Francis in Hastings on Hudson, 2009-2014.

She served as a nurse in the U.S. Navy from 1964 to 1975, attaining the rank of lieutenant commander. She saw service in Japan where she cared for wounded soldiers returning from Vietnam. When she returned to the United States she did post-graduate training as an anesthetist. After receiving her doctorate in psychology from California Southern University in 2001 she was a certified Eden Energy Medicine practitioner in Virginia until 2009.

Prior to entering religious life she had worked for nine years in Haiti as a healthcare provider and missionary.

Born in Buffalo, she entered the Sisters of St. Francis in Syracuse in 1988 and professed final vows in 1995. The Sisters of St. Francis, Syracuse, subsequently became the Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities after three St. Francis communities in New York state amalgamated in 2004. She received her initial nurse’s training at Boston University and held a master’s degree plus a certificate of advanced study in pastoral counseling from Loyola College.

Her siblings, William D. Peace and Donna Peace Lepsch, Daniel Moreton, Diane Moreton, Judy Moreton, Debbie Moreton and Carol P. Anderson, survive her.

A Funeral Mass was offered March 12 in the chapel at Wartburg in Mount Vernon. Burial was at Assumption Cemetery, Syracuse.

Sister Shirley Ann Peace, O.S.F.