Funeral services for Sister Mary Monica Wojtowicz will be held at the Felician Sisters' Infirmary Chapel, Our Lady of Lourdes Hall, at 11 AM on Friday morning, May 8, 2009.
Following the Mass of Christian Burial, Sister will be laid to rest in the Felician Sisters' Cemetery in Lodi. Sister Mary Monica died on Monday, May 4, 2009, in Lodi, New Jersey.
She was 92 years old and had been a Felician Sister for 74 years.
Awake service will be held at the same location on Thursday evening, May 7 at 6 PM. The former Helen Clara Wojtowicz, Sister Monica was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1916.
She entered the postulancy of the Felician Sisters in Lodi, New Jersey in 1934, and received the Felician habit in 1935.
She made her first religious vows in 1936 and professed final vows in 1942.
A graduate of Seton Hall University in South Orange, with a B.S. in elementary education, Sister Mary Monica spent 12 years as an elementary level teacher.
She then spent forty years in the business office of several healthcare institutions in Blackwell, Oklahoma; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; South Orange, New Jersey.
She became a patient of Our Lady of Lourdes Hall (Felician Sisters' Infirmary) in 2000.
Sister Mary Monica is survived by members of her extended family, most of whom live in the Reading, Pennsylvania area.
Arrangements under the direction of the Shook Funeral Home, 639 Van Houten Ave., Clifton.
Published in The Record/Herald News on May 6, 2009.
Following the Mass of Christian Burial, Sister will be laid to rest in the Felician Sisters' Cemetery in Lodi. Sister Mary Monica died on Monday, May 4, 2009, in Lodi, New Jersey.
She was 92 years old and had been a Felician Sister for 74 years.
Awake service will be held at the same location on Thursday evening, May 7 at 6 PM. The former Helen Clara Wojtowicz, Sister Monica was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1916.
She entered the postulancy of the Felician Sisters in Lodi, New Jersey in 1934, and received the Felician habit in 1935.
She made her first religious vows in 1936 and professed final vows in 1942.
A graduate of Seton Hall University in South Orange, with a B.S. in elementary education, Sister Mary Monica spent 12 years as an elementary level teacher.
She then spent forty years in the business office of several healthcare institutions in Blackwell, Oklahoma; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; South Orange, New Jersey.
She became a patient of Our Lady of Lourdes Hall (Felician Sisters' Infirmary) in 2000.
Sister Mary Monica is survived by members of her extended family, most of whom live in the Reading, Pennsylvania area.
Arrangements under the direction of the Shook Funeral Home, 639 Van Houten Ave., Clifton.
Published in The Record/Herald News on May 6, 2009.
Funeral services for Sister Mary Monica Wojtowicz will be held at the Felician Sisters' Infirmary Chapel, Our Lady of Lourdes Hall, at 11 AM on Friday morning, May 8, 2009.
Following the Mass of Christian Burial, Sister will be laid to rest in the Felician Sisters' Cemetery in Lodi. Sister Mary Monica died on Monday, May 4, 2009, in Lodi, New Jersey.
She was 92 years old and had been a Felician Sister for 74 years.
Awake service will be held at the same location on Thursday evening, May 7 at 6 PM. The former Helen Clara Wojtowicz, Sister Monica was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1916.
She entered the postulancy of the Felician Sisters in Lodi, New Jersey in 1934, and received the Felician habit in 1935.
She made her first religious vows in 1936 and professed final vows in 1942.
A graduate of Seton Hall University in South Orange, with a B.S. in elementary education, Sister Mary Monica spent 12 years as an elementary level teacher.
She then spent forty years in the business office of several healthcare institutions in Blackwell, Oklahoma; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; South Orange, New Jersey.
She became a patient of Our Lady of Lourdes Hall (Felician Sisters' Infirmary) in 2000.
Sister Mary Monica is survived by members of her extended family, most of whom live in the Reading, Pennsylvania area.
Arrangements under the direction of the Shook Funeral Home, 639 Van Houten Ave., Clifton.
Published in The Record/Herald News on May 6, 2009.
Following the Mass of Christian Burial, Sister will be laid to rest in the Felician Sisters' Cemetery in Lodi. Sister Mary Monica died on Monday, May 4, 2009, in Lodi, New Jersey.
She was 92 years old and had been a Felician Sister for 74 years.
Awake service will be held at the same location on Thursday evening, May 7 at 6 PM. The former Helen Clara Wojtowicz, Sister Monica was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1916.
She entered the postulancy of the Felician Sisters in Lodi, New Jersey in 1934, and received the Felician habit in 1935.
She made her first religious vows in 1936 and professed final vows in 1942.
A graduate of Seton Hall University in South Orange, with a B.S. in elementary education, Sister Mary Monica spent 12 years as an elementary level teacher.
She then spent forty years in the business office of several healthcare institutions in Blackwell, Oklahoma; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; South Orange, New Jersey.
She became a patient of Our Lady of Lourdes Hall (Felician Sisters' Infirmary) in 2000.
Sister Mary Monica is survived by members of her extended family, most of whom live in the Reading, Pennsylvania area.
Arrangements under the direction of the Shook Funeral Home, 639 Van Houten Ave., Clifton.
Published in The Record/Herald News on May 6, 2009.
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