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Sister M. Dolores Sevilla, O.S.F., who served for 26 years at the old Mount Loretto orphanage on Staten Island, died Oct. 28 in Syracuse. She was 82.
Sister Dolores worked at Mount Loretto, 1959-1961 and 1971-1994. She served as a teacher, administrator, nurse, occupational therapist and prefect there. During her later years at Mount Loretto, she taught at St. Joseph by-the-Sea High School on Staten Island. She taught at Immaculate Conception, Tuckahoe, 1961-1970.
Born in New York City in 1935 and raised in Scarsdale, she entered the Sisters of St. Francis in 1955 and professed first vows in 1960.
She lived in retirement at the sisters’ home in Mount Vernon, before moving to the sisters’ convent in Syracuse two years ago.
A Funeral Mass was offered Oct. 30 at the Franciscan Villa Chapel in Syracuse. Interment was at Assumption Cemetery, also in Syracuse.
