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Sister Helen Phillips, M.M., who served as a principal and teacher and in administrative positions in South America and several U.S. states, died Feb. 15 at Maryknoll Sisters Center in Ossining. She was 94.
Sister Helen was principal of a girls’ high school in Peru in the 1970s. In the 1990s, she served in Hawaii on ecumenical and pastoral outreach and assisted with Spanish translation. Also in that decade, she served as an administrator at a language school in Bolivia. In the 1950s and 1960s, she served in catechetical ministry in California, Texas and Bolivia.
In New York, she was coordinator of secondary education in the National Office of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith in the 1980s.
Born in Hollis, Queens, she entered the Maryknoll Sisters in 1944 and professed final vows in 1950. She held a bachelor’s degree in education from Maryknoll Teachers College; a bachelor’s of education in history/geography and biological studies from Instituto Superior de Pedagógico in Lima, Peru; and a master’s in theological studies from the Maryknoll School of Theology.
Sister Helen is survived by a brother, Robert, and a sister, Patricia.
A memorial service was livestreamed Feb. 19 from Annunciation Chapel at Maryknoll Sisters Center.
