Sister Sally White – 75th Jubilee

Written on: August 6, 2024

Sister Sally White (Sister Frances Maureen)

Sister Sally White was one of the first Grey Nuns from the South to enter the Grey Nun novitiate 75 years ago, and her gentle southern drawl is still quite evident and charming. She says, “I fell in love with the Grey Nun community all those years ago, because the Sisters were deeply spiritual, refined, and smart.”

She has had a diverse ministry career, which began with her years in education. She taught at Holy Angels Elementary School (Buffalo, NY), Christ the King School and St. Pius X High School (in her hometown of Atlanta, GA), and was the founding principal of St. Jude The Apostle School also in Atlanta. While she loved her work in education, she later felt the stirrings for a new calling toward pastoral ministry. After graduation with a Master’s in Pastoral Studies from Loyola University, Sister Sally spent the next 22 years as an oncology chaplain at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Atlanta. It was rewarding to minister to cancer patients and their families but a challenging mission. As she explains, “it was a different time than today, in terms of medical choices for patients. They didn’t have the life-extending medical options they have now.”  Instead, Sister Sally lovingly sat with the patients as they were dying and sang, prayed, and tried to bring them peacefully to God at the end of their lives.

Sister Sally feels that her religious commitment has deepened even more over the years, as she’s understood more of God’s love. She adds, “the beauty of the Sacred Heart is that it is an expression of God’s love for us. That is why I love it so much. That’s God’s gift to me.”

If you write your Jubilee well-wishes in the comments section below, we’ll be sure to share your message with Sister Sally. Our Sisters love hearing from former students, coworkers, and friends from near and far!

Would you like to donate to the Grey Nuns in honor of Sister Sally’s Jubilee? Your prayers and financial gifts help us to care for our elder sisters, support our sisters in ministry, and enable us to live a life of prayer and advocacy for the most marginalized of God’s people. Please let us know if our Sisters can pray for you, and please pray for us!

More about Sister Sally from our website archives:

Sister Sally White (Sister Francis Maureen) Overwhelmed by God’s Goodness

This entry was posted in Our 2024 Jubilarians and tagged: Christ the King School, Holy Angels Elementary School, Loyola University Chicago, oncology chaplain, Sister Sally White, St. Joseph’s Hospital in Atlanta, St. Jude The Apostle School, St. Pius X High School