Detroit — Bro. Marcel Sylvestre, FIC, will speak about his current work in Haiti when he returns for the Detroit Cathedral High School all-class reunion on April 22. The 3 p.m. reunion will be in what used to be the high school’s gymnasium, at the east end of the Cathedral of the Most Blessed...
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Sister of Charity of Cincinnati Marian Schlueter (formerly Sr. Mary Dominic) died March 17 at age 87 at Mother Margaret Hall, the nursing facility of the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati. She was born Marian Edith Schlueter on May 6, 1924, in Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughter of William J. and Mary (Bankemper) Schlueter. Sr....
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The Girl Scouts were founded in 1912 by Juliette Gordon Low, and the national organization aims to “build girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place,” its mission statement says.
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Sr. Loretta Jean Hanson, OP, formerly known as Janet Loretta Hanson, died March 10 at the Dominican Life Center in Adrian. She was 85 and in the 61st year of her religious profession in the Adrian Dominican Congregation. Sr. Hanson was born in Iron Mountain, Mich., to Ragnar and Loretta (Stoikes) Hanson. She graduated...
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Sr. Helen Colette Melkon, OP, the former Sr. Mary Reginald, died at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Pontiac on Feb. 27. Helen Colette was one of nine children born to John and Sophie (Mraz) Melkon in Perth Amboy, N.J. Helen entered the former congregation of Dominican Sisters of Oxford (then in Pontiac) on Feb....
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