Daughter of Fred Allen and Mabel Higgins.
When she and her twin sister, Rita, were two years old, the family moved to Kansas City, Mo. The sisters met the Sisters of St. Joseph for the first time at Redemptorist High School and later at St. Teresa’s Junior College. After just one year of college, entered the community, while Rita began nurses’ training at St. Joseph’s Hospital.
Entered the community in February 1940 and received the habit on August 15 of that year. Soon after first profession in 1942, she began her long association with elementary education, either as teacher or as a learning center coordinator. Taught at St. Edward School, Sts. Mary and Joseph School, and Immacolata School in St. Louis, Mo.; St. Mary School, Waco, Tx.; St. Mary School, Littleton, Co.; and Visitation School, Kansas City, Mo. Her most extensive assignment was at Our Lady of Lourdes School in Raytown, Mo., where she not only taught religion, (1975 – 1989) but was the Learning/Resource Center Coordinator (1975 – 2001)
When Our Lady of Lourdes Convent closed, was the last to move out. Initially she continued her tutoring at Our Lady of Lourdes, but within a short time, she took an entirely new path when she became a vital member of CSJ Home Care.
Gave herself wholeheartedly to this new challenge and went out of her way to make her visits with her clients interesting and fun. From the public library she obtained books, atlases, etc., according to an individual’s interests. Or she might bring checker boards or cards if she knew her companion had that bent. With these adventures, came alive herself, much like the beautiful blossoming almond bush she so enjoyed each spring outside their Wornall home.
In 2006 learned she had cancer, determined to go to Nazareth. Her friends, nearly every sister and associate in Kansas City, and her Lourdes’ colleagues gave her a grand farewell “Send Off.” Such an outpouring of love attests to how her thoughtfulness and great generosity of spirit touched many lives.
Memorial Mass was celebrated at Nazareth Living Center in South St. Louis County, Mo.
When she and her twin sister, Rita, were two years old, the family moved to Kansas City, Mo. The sisters met the Sisters of St. Joseph for the first time at Redemptorist High School and later at St. Teresa’s Junior College. After just one year of college, entered the community, while Rita began nurses’ training at St. Joseph’s Hospital.
Entered the community in February 1940 and received the habit on August 15 of that year. Soon after first profession in 1942, she began her long association with elementary education, either as teacher or as a learning center coordinator. Taught at St. Edward School, Sts. Mary and Joseph School, and Immacolata School in St. Louis, Mo.; St. Mary School, Waco, Tx.; St. Mary School, Littleton, Co.; and Visitation School, Kansas City, Mo. Her most extensive assignment was at Our Lady of Lourdes School in Raytown, Mo., where she not only taught religion, (1975 – 1989) but was the Learning/Resource Center Coordinator (1975 – 2001)
When Our Lady of Lourdes Convent closed, was the last to move out. Initially she continued her tutoring at Our Lady of Lourdes, but within a short time, she took an entirely new path when she became a vital member of CSJ Home Care.
Gave herself wholeheartedly to this new challenge and went out of her way to make her visits with her clients interesting and fun. From the public library she obtained books, atlases, etc., according to an individual’s interests. Or she might bring checker boards or cards if she knew her companion had that bent. With these adventures, came alive herself, much like the beautiful blossoming almond bush she so enjoyed each spring outside their Wornall home.
In 2006 learned she had cancer, determined to go to Nazareth. Her friends, nearly every sister and associate in Kansas City, and her Lourdes’ colleagues gave her a grand farewell “Send Off.” Such an outpouring of love attests to how her thoughtfulness and great generosity of spirit touched many lives.
Memorial Mass was celebrated at Nazareth Living Center in South St. Louis County, Mo.
Daughter of Fred Allen and Mabel Higgins.
When she and her twin sister, Rita, were two years old, the family moved to Kansas City, Mo. The sisters met the Sisters of St. Joseph for the first time at Redemptorist High School and later at St. Teresa’s Junior College. After just one year of college, entered the community, while Rita began nurses’ training at St. Joseph’s Hospital.
Entered the community in February 1940 and received the habit on August 15 of that year. Soon after first profession in 1942, she began her long association with elementary education, either as teacher or as a learning center coordinator. Taught at St. Edward School, Sts. Mary and Joseph School, and Immacolata School in St. Louis, Mo.; St. Mary School, Waco, Tx.; St. Mary School, Littleton, Co.; and Visitation School, Kansas City, Mo. Her most extensive assignment was at Our Lady of Lourdes School in Raytown, Mo., where she not only taught religion, (1975 – 1989) but was the Learning/Resource Center Coordinator (1975 – 2001)
When Our Lady of Lourdes Convent closed, was the last to move out. Initially she continued her tutoring at Our Lady of Lourdes, but within a short time, she took an entirely new path when she became a vital member of CSJ Home Care.
Gave herself wholeheartedly to this new challenge and went out of her way to make her visits with her clients interesting and fun. From the public library she obtained books, atlases, etc., according to an individual’s interests. Or she might bring checker boards or cards if she knew her companion had that bent. With these adventures, came alive herself, much like the beautiful blossoming almond bush she so enjoyed each spring outside their Wornall home.
In 2006 learned she had cancer, determined to go to Nazareth. Her friends, nearly every sister and associate in Kansas City, and her Lourdes’ colleagues gave her a grand farewell “Send Off.” Such an outpouring of love attests to how her thoughtfulness and great generosity of spirit touched many lives.
Memorial Mass was celebrated at Nazareth Living Center in South St. Louis County, Mo.
When she and her twin sister, Rita, were two years old, the family moved to Kansas City, Mo. The sisters met the Sisters of St. Joseph for the first time at Redemptorist High School and later at St. Teresa’s Junior College. After just one year of college, entered the community, while Rita began nurses’ training at St. Joseph’s Hospital.
Entered the community in February 1940 and received the habit on August 15 of that year. Soon after first profession in 1942, she began her long association with elementary education, either as teacher or as a learning center coordinator. Taught at St. Edward School, Sts. Mary and Joseph School, and Immacolata School in St. Louis, Mo.; St. Mary School, Waco, Tx.; St. Mary School, Littleton, Co.; and Visitation School, Kansas City, Mo. Her most extensive assignment was at Our Lady of Lourdes School in Raytown, Mo., where she not only taught religion, (1975 – 1989) but was the Learning/Resource Center Coordinator (1975 – 2001)
When Our Lady of Lourdes Convent closed, was the last to move out. Initially she continued her tutoring at Our Lady of Lourdes, but within a short time, she took an entirely new path when she became a vital member of CSJ Home Care.
Gave herself wholeheartedly to this new challenge and went out of her way to make her visits with her clients interesting and fun. From the public library she obtained books, atlases, etc., according to an individual’s interests. Or she might bring checker boards or cards if she knew her companion had that bent. With these adventures, came alive herself, much like the beautiful blossoming almond bush she so enjoyed each spring outside their Wornall home.
In 2006 learned she had cancer, determined to go to Nazareth. Her friends, nearly every sister and associate in Kansas City, and her Lourdes’ colleagues gave her a grand farewell “Send Off.” Such an outpouring of love attests to how her thoughtfulness and great generosity of spirit touched many lives.
Memorial Mass was celebrated at Nazareth Living Center in South St. Louis County, Mo.
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