Sister Rosalie Carey

May 29, 1995

CAREY Sister Rosalie Carey, a Carmelite Sister of St. Therese, died May 26, 1995, at Villa Teresa Convent, Oklahoma City. She was born Mary Madonna Carey, July 7, 1902, in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, to James J. and Anne Yard Carey, the second of five children, all preceding her in death. She completed second year college in Canada before she moved with the Sisters of Mercy to Little Rock, Arkansas, where she continued her education with the intention of becoming a missionary. Father Raymond Gomez, a Carmelite priest on the faculty of the seminary at Little Rock, encouraged her to go to Oklahoma where she joined the Carmelite Sisters in Hartshorne in June 1923 and took the name Sister Rosalie. She made profession of vows on January 2, 1926, completed undergraduate studies at St. Joseph College in Guthrie, Oklahoma, and graduate studies at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. During her sixty years in Catholic education, Sister Rosalie taught in parochial schools in Hartshorne, Cushing, Sand Springs, Bristow, Newkirk, Fairfax and Union City, Oklahoma, at St. Joseph Orphanage, Little Flower, Villa Teresa and Bishop McGuinness High School in Oklahoma City, Incarnate Word High School in San Antonio, Texas, and St. Coletta School for Mentally Handicapped in Jefferson, Wisconsin.

She is survived by her sister-in-law, Frances Carey, of Corner Brook, Newfoundland, and nieces, Sister Rosalie Carey PBVM, Anne and Rosalie Madonna, and nephews, Joshua, Michael, John, Charles, Wilfred, Gerald and Donald. Also her sister-in-law, Mary Carey, of Bishop's Falls, Newfoundland, and niece, Rosalie, and nephews, Gerard, Wilfred, Thomas, Guf and Allen.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to Villa Teresa School.

Prayer Vigil will be Tuesday, May 30, 1995, 7:30 p.m. at Villa Teresa Convent. Mass of Christian Burial 1 will be Wednesday, May 31, 1995, 12:00 p.m. at Resurrection Memorial Cemetery Chapel followed by the interment at Resurrection Cemetery.

SMITH & KERNKE

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