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Sister M. Rose Assumpta Rossi, O.S.F, who served many years as an educator at schools in the archdiocese, died May 6 at Wartburg in Mount Vernon. She was 99.
Sister Rose Assumpta, who was a member of the Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities, taught at Annunciation School, Crestwood, 1981-2003; Immaculate Conception, Tuckahoe, 1963-1980 and 1954-1957; and St. Aloysius at Mount Loretto on Staten Island, 1945 to 1954.
She received numerous National Science Foundation grants as a teacher of science and math at the junior high school level.
Born in Poughkeepsie, she entered the Sisters of St. Francis, Hastings-on-Hudson, in 1940 and professed final vows in 1946. She received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education from Fordham University.
Her burial took place May 12 at Resurrection Cemetery, Staten Island, and a Memorial Mass will offered at a later date.
