Sister Mary Therese Hannaway, S.C.

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Sister Mary Therese Hannaway, S.C., who twice served as a principal in the archdiocese, died March 3 at Cabrini of Westchester in Dobbs Ferry. She was 88.

Sister Therese was principal of St. Lucy, the Bronx, 1993-1995, and St. Joachim, Beacon, 1974-1984; and assistant principal of St. Peter, Staten Island, 1972-1974.

More recently, she served at SS. John and Paul School in Larchmont as a teacher and substitute teacher, 1996-2009.

She also taught at Resurrection, Rye, 1984-1993; Blessed Sacrament, the Bronx, 1967-1972; St. Mary of the Snow, Saugerties, 1965-1967; St. Barnabas, the Bronx, 1960-1965; SS. Peter and Paul, the Bronx, 1956-1960; and St. Francis Xavier, Manhattan, 1953-1956.

Born in the Bronx, she was a graduate of Cathedral High School in Manhattan. She entered the Sisters of Charity of New York in 1950 and professed final vows in 1958. She earned a bachelor’s degree in history from the College of Mount St. Vincent, the Bronx; and a master’s in history from Manhattan College, the Bronx.

Her sisters, Margaret Warde, Anne Walker and Sister Bernadette Hannaway, O.S.U.; and her brother, John, survive her.

A Funeral Mass was celebrated March 12 at St. Margaret of Cortona, the Bronx. Burial was in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne.

Sister Mary Therese Hannaway, S.C.