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Sister Laura Hatton, M.M., a former U.S. Army nurse who was baptized into the Catholic Church as an adult and served as a Maryknoll missioner in Bolivia, died Sept. 29 at the Maryknoll Sisters Residential Care III. She was 88.
She became interested in Catholicism while serving as an Army nurse in Los Angeles shortly after World War II and was baptized in 1947. She entered Maryknoll in 1948, making her final vows in Bolivia in 1955. She was assigned to Bolivia in 1952 and served for 44 years there engaged in medical work in Riberalta and Cochabamba, where she served as a nurse in the parish clinic. She retired to the Maryknoll Center in 1999.
Born in Del Rio, Texas, she graduated from the Shannon Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in San Angelo, Texas, as a registered nurse in 1942. She served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in New Mexico and Texas and with the Veterans Administration in Los Angeles and New Orleans.
A Funeral Mass was offered Oct. 6 in the Maryknoll Sisters Center in Ossining. Burial was in the sisters’ cemetery.
