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Sister Elizabeth Monaghan, O.S.U., a teacher and musician who served at all levels of education, died June 23 at Andrus on Hudson. She was 92. She was on the faculty of the College of New Rochelle from 1968 to 1997; as a music teacher until 1990 and as director of music from 1987 to 1997. After her retirement, she continued there as organist and tutor in English until 2002. Sister Elizabeth, previously known as Mother Francis Borgia, was a member of the Westchester Musicians Guild, and served on the Inter-Religious Council of New Rochelle. She was a teacher in the archdiocese at St. Jerome's School, the Bronx, 1942-1943; St. Philip Neri, the Bronx, 1943-1948 and 1949-1954; and the Ursuline School, New Rochelle, 1962-1968. Born in New York City, she grew up in the Bronx. She entered the Ursuline Sisters in 1932 and made her final profession in 1938. She earned a bachelor's degree in English and education from Fordham University and a choirmaster's certificate from the Gregorian Institute of America. She also held a master's in musicology from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and did additional graduate work at the Pius XII Institute in Florence, Italy. A Funeral Mass was offered June 26 in Holy Family Chapel at the College of New Rochelle, with burial in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in New Rochelle.
