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Sister M. Bernadette Bolin, O.P., who was a teacher and child care worker in the archdiocese, died Feb. 15 in Siena Hall Infirmary at Dominican Convent in Sparkill. She was 85. She taught in the archdiocese at Aquinas High School, the Bronx, 1969-1988, and at St. Catherine of Siena School, Manhattan, 1967-1969; St. Martin of Tours, the Bronx, 1965-1967 and 1949-1952; and Sacred Heart, Suffern, 1944-1947. She also taught in the Dioceses of Brooklyn and Syracuse. She was a child care worker at Cardinal McCloskey Home in White Plains, 1947-1949, and Holy Rosary Convent in Manhattan, 1943-1944. In recent years, she had volunteered in the communications office at Dominican Convent. Born in the Bronx, she entered the Dominican Sisters of Sparkill in 1938 and made final vows in 1945. She earned a bachelor's degree in education from St. Thomas Aquinas College in Sparkill and a master's in math from Manhattan College in the Bronx. A Funeral Mass was offered Feb. 20 at Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel at Dominican Convent. Burial was in St. Agnes Cemetery in Sparkill.
