Sister Katherine Jane Stordy Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul

Name in Religion — Sister Maria Beatrice

Date of birth — May 24th., 1895

Parents’ names —— John Stordy and Margaret Murphy Date of profession — April 12th., 1925

Final profession —— August 15th., 1931

Number of years professed —— 31

Date of death — June 20th., 1956

Place of burial —— Mount Olivet Cemetery, Halifax, NS.

With the exception of one year at the Academy of the Assumption, Wellesley Hills, Sister’s entire apostolate was spent in Nova Scotia. Her labours extended from Metegan to St. Mary’s and St. Theresa’s in Halifax; the Indian Residential school in Shubenacadie, the Hamilton Hospital, North Sydney. After a lengthy illness borne with cheerful fortitude, she died at the Halifax Infirmary.

Sister Bertha A. Stordy Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul

Name in Religion — Sister Maria Peter

Date of birth — August 19th., 1906

Parents’ names —— John Stordy and Margaret Murphy Date of profession — April 8th., 1928

Final profession — August 15th., 1934

Number of years professed —— 45

Sister spent forty-one years teaching in various schools of the Congregation in Dorchester, Mass, Stellarton, Glace Bay, New Waterford, Reserve and Dartmouth in Nova Scotia, and in Quebec City and Vancouver. Upon her retirement from teaching in 1969, she spent a period of study at the W. K. Kellogg Health Science Library in Halifax in preparation for present work as Medical Librarian, in the Health Services Library, of the Halifax Infirmary.

Sister Adriana Monaghan Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul

Name in Religion — Sister Elizabeth James

Date of birth — August 22nd, 1910

Parents’ names — James Raymond Monaghan and Elizabeth Hughes Date of profession — March 28th., 1937

Final profession — August 15th., 1943

Number of years professed —— 36

Sister served as dietician in hospitals operated by the Congregation in North Sydney and in Western Canada. She is now working with the retired Sisters at Mount St. Vincent’s, Halifax.

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