First Profession August 16, 1937
Motherhouse
Baltimore, Maryland
Sister Mary Stephanie Searles, SSND, a retired parochial school educator and librarian, died Wednesday of liver disease at the Spa Creek Nursing Home in Annapolis. She was 81.
Throughout her 57-year career, Sister Stephanie taught intermediate grades at parochial schools in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.
Locally, she taught at St. Thomas Aquinas, Notre Dame, and Our Lady of Good Counsel parochial schools and was elementary librarian at St. Mary Parochial School in Annapolis from 1975 until she retired in 1994.
Born Rita Teresa Searles in Washington, she entered the School Sisters of Notre Dame in 1934 and was a 1937 graduate of the Institute of Notre Dame in Baltimore. She professed her vows in 1937 and earned a bachelor's degree in education from Mount Mercy College in Pittsburgh in 1956.
A Mass of Christian burial will be offered at 10 a.m. today at Villa Assumpta, Motherhouse of her order, at 6401 N. Charles St.
Sister of Sister Mary Etienne, SSND. She is survived by several nieces and nephews.
First Profession August 16, 1937
Motherhouse
Baltimore, Maryland
Sister Mary Stephanie Searles, SSND, a retired parochial school educator and librarian, died Wednesday of liver disease at the Spa Creek Nursing Home in Annapolis. She was 81.
Throughout her 57-year career, Sister Stephanie taught intermediate grades at parochial schools in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.
Locally, she taught at St. Thomas Aquinas, Notre Dame, and Our Lady of Good Counsel parochial schools and was elementary librarian at St. Mary Parochial School in Annapolis from 1975 until she retired in 1994.
Born Rita Teresa Searles in Washington, she entered the School Sisters of Notre Dame in 1934 and was a 1937 graduate of the Institute of Notre Dame in Baltimore. She professed her vows in 1937 and earned a bachelor's degree in education from Mount Mercy College in Pittsburgh in 1956.
A Mass of Christian burial will be offered at 10 a.m. today at Villa Assumpta, Motherhouse of her order, at 6401 N. Charles St.
Sister of Sister Mary Etienne, SSND. She is survived by several nieces and nephews.
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