Tag: Jackson Heights New York

August 24, 2021

Sister Constance Marie (Connie) Welsh, GNSH

Reflection on the life of Sister Constance Marie Welsh, GNSH by Eileen White, GNSH Funeral Mass August 28, 2021    —  …


May 1, 2019

Sister Frances William Avery- 70th Jubilee

Sister Frances William has spent many of the years of her religious life in the city of her birth, Philadelphia….


December 31, 2018

Sister St. Catherine Curley

The following words of remembrance were delivered by Sister Barbara Schiavoni, GNSH at the Funeral Mass for Sr. St. Catherine…


March 27, 2018

Sister Dolores Fitzpatrick (Sr. Claire Marie)- 70th Jubilee

click above and scroll down Growing up, the bustling neighborhoods of Jackson Heights, New York, were home to Sister Dolores…


April 7, 2017

Sister Barbara Connolly- 60th Jubilee

Sister Barbara Connolly (Sister Mary Luke) was raised in Jackson Heights, New York, and has spent much of her religious life…


April 7, 2017

Sister St. Catherine Curley- 80th Jubilee

Sister St. Catherine Curley was barely 16 when she entered the Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart. Her 80 years…


August 1, 2016

Sister Mary Denis Woods

Sister Mary Denis Woods, GNSH, 89, died in St. Joseph’s Manor, Meadowbrook, PA on July 27, 2016 in her 71st…


April 14, 2014

Sisters Memories of Ministry

Eileen Dickerson has been interviewing various Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart to create a new section on our website based…


February 4, 2014

Sr. Joan Marie McCann: “Jackson Heights was a big change!”

I was sent to teach at St. Joan of Arc School as my first mission assignment, fresh from the Novitiate,…


February 4, 2014

Sister Patricia Eileen McKeon: From Blessed Sacrament to St. Leo’s

I grew up in Jackson Heights, in Blessed Sacrament parish. It was a very Catholic neighborhood. Of course, there were…


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