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Sister Estelle Kilpatrick, O.P., a Dominican Sister of Hope who taught for 14 years at Mount St. Mary College in Newburgh and served as principal of SS. John and Paul School in Larchmont, died Jan. 25 at Meadowview at Wartburg in Mount Vernon. She was 99.
Sister Estelle taught in the education department at Mount St. Mary College, 1969-1982 and 1962-1963, and was principal of SS. John and Paul School, Larchmont, 1952-1961.
She also taught at Holy Rosary School, Hawthorne, 1965-1967; Bishop Dunn Memorial School, Newburgh, 1963-1965; Nativity School, the Bronx, 1961-1962; Mount St. Academy High School, Newburgh, 1945-1947; St. Thomas School, Cornwall, 1944-1945; and Casa San Jose, Newburgh, 1941-1944. She was a catechist at St. Mary’s parish, Washingtonville, 1941-1944, and also served in New Jersey.
Born in Newburgh, she entered the Dominican Sisters of Newburgh in 1938 and professed final vows in 1946. Sister Estelle earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education and a master’s in secondary education, both from The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. She received her doctorate in education from Columbia University, Manhattan.
The Dominican Sisters of Hope were founded in 1995 from the merger of Dominican congregations in Newburgh, Ossining and Fall River, Mass.
A Funeral Mass was offered Jan. 31 at Most Holy Rosary Chapel in the Dominican Center at Mount St. Mary College. Burial was in the Dominican Sisters of Hope cemetery at Mount St. Mary College.
