SISTER EDNA LUCIE PITRE

On a beautiful autumnal day, September 8, 1919, the feast of the Nativity of Mary, Edna Lucie, the eldest of six chil- dren, was born to Ignace Pitre and Priscille Pitre. Four days later, on the feast of the Holy Name of Mary, Edna was baptized by Father J.A. Gaudet in the parish church of St. Ann's, Hope River.

St. Mary's School provided elementary and secondary education, Grades 1 to X, ' after which Edna attended Prince of Wales College and obtained a teacher's license. During this time, she was a boarder at Notre Dame Convent in Charlottetown. 5m” Edna Lime Pit"?

For three years Edna taught in her home school of St. Mary's, and then one year in Wellington Station School with Grades 1 to IV.

Born and baptized under the auspices of Our Blessed Mother, it was not too surprising when a call to religious life occurred. Edna entered the Congregation de Notre Dame in Montreal in August, 1941 and made reli— gious profession in 1943 when she was sent to teach in St. Louis de Kent, N.B. For the next fifteen years she was missioned in both RBI. and NB. In both P.E.I. and N.B., in such places as the Rusticos, Caraquet, Summerside and Newcastle.

From 1960, Sister Edna spent thirty-two years in La Belle Province of Quebec. Richmond benefitted from her services for one year; and from 1961 she taught in the elementary school in Rosemere for twenty— one years with various residences, as convents closed. Residences were in the Ste. Therese—Rosemere—St. Eustache region, but teaching continued in the same school.

Upon retirement from teaching in 1982, Sister was given a mandate by Bishop Charles Valois of the Diocese of St. Jerome as pastoral anima- tor of the Rosemere Regional Parish of Holy Cross where she worked for ten years.

At her farewell party, Sister Edna received the medal Diocesan Merit Mgr. Emilien Frenette "in acknowledgement of her service to the church and more specifically, as an active collaborator in the Diocese of St. Jerome".

Sister was welcomed back to the red soil of RBI. in October, 1992 and has taken up residence at St. Mary's Convent in Summerside.

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