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Sister Rosalie Carey May 29, 1995 |
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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 © The Oklahoma Publishing Co. and its
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