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Sister Theresa Angelo Girolamo, O.P., a teacher at Aquinas High School in the Bronx for 11 years, died June 27 at Dominican Convent Siena Hall in Sparkill. She was 80.
She served at St. Rita’s Center for Immigrant and Refugees Services, the Bronx, as director, 2015-2019; assistant director, 2005-2015; and coordinator of the English as a Second Language state program, 1994-2005.
Sister Theresa Angelo taught at Aquinas High School, 1983-1994. She also taught at St. Rose of Lima, Manhattan, 1978-1983; St. Catherine of Siena, Manhattan, 1961-1966; and St. Agnes Home and School, Sparkill, 1958-1961.
Sister Theresa Angelo also served in upstate Norwich and Nassau County Born in the Bronx, she entered the Dominican Sisters of Sparkill in 1958 and professed final vows in 1965. She received a bachelor’s degree in education from St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, and a master’s in earth science from the University of Oklahoma, Norman.
Her sister, Amy Cammerato, and her brothers, Ralph and Vincent, survive her.
A Funeral Mass was celebrated July 1 in Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel, Sparkill. Burial was in St. Agnes Cemetery, Sparkill.
