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Sister Eleanor Singer, F.M.S.C, a teacher at Cathedral High School’s St. Joseph’s branch for six years, died on June 12 at Mount St. Francis in Peekskill. She was 89.
She taught at Cathedral’s St. Joseph’s branch in Manhattan, 1964-1970. She also served at Franciscan High School, Mohegan Lake, 1980-1981; Our Lady Queen of Martyrs School, Manhattan, 1959-1961; Immaculate Conception, Irvington, 1957-1958; Sacred Heart, Highland Falls, 1954-1957; and St. Joseph’s Home, Peekskill, 1958-1959 and 1951-1954.
She also was a teacher and principal at schools in New Jersey.
Following 46 years of teaching, she was the provincial secretary at Mount St. Francis until her retirement in 2009, and following her retirement, she worked in the library and on the switchboard at Mount St. Francis.
Born in Queens, she entered the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart in 1949 and professed final vows in 1956.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in French from Ladycliff College in Highland Falls and a master’s in French from Rivier College in Nashua, N.H.
A Funeral Mass was celebrated on June 15 at Mount St. Francis, where burial followed in the community’s cemetery.
