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Sister Theresa Ruth, O.S.F., who served at St. Agnes Hospital in White Plains for 22 years, died March 22 at Wartburg in Mount Vernon. She was 92.
At St. Agnes, Sister Theresa was assistant administrator for children’s services and director of support services, 1979-1989, and director of nursing services, 1962-1974. She also served as school nurse at St. Eugene School, Yonkers, 1999-2008; per diem nursing supervisor at several Westchester County nursing homes, 1989-1999; infirmary nurse at Mount Loretto, Staten Island, 1956-1959, where she taught, 1949-1950; and a nurse at St. Francis Hospital, Port Jervis, 1954-1956.
Sister Theresa was vocations director for the Sisters of St. Francis, 1971-1977, and she taught at Immaculate Conception School, Tuckahoe, 1948-1949, and St. Clare Academy, Hastings-on-Hudson, 1947-1948. She also served in Brooklyn and New Jersey.
Born in Brooklyn, she entered the Sisters of St. Francis in Hastings-on-Hudson in 1946 and professed final vows in 1951. Sister Theresa earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Seton Hall University, South Orange, N.J.
A Funeral Mass was celebrated April 2 in Wartburg Chapel. Burial was in Resurrection Cemetery, Staten Island.
