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October 31 , 2001
Obituary
Sister Regina Marie Holland dies at 79
Teacher served in China, Denver schools
Sister Regina Marie Holland, a Sister of Loretto, died Sept. 7 at the infirmary of the Loretto Motherhouse in Nerinx, Ky. She was in the 79th year of her religious life. A Mass celebrating her life was held at the motherhouse Sept. 10. She was buried at the motherhouse.
Sister Regina Marie was born in Norfolk, Va., Jan. 6, 1903.
She was a life-long teacher with 16 of those years spent at Loretto School in Shanghai, China (1936-1952). She was interned with other Sisters of Loretto and other religious by the Japanese authorities in Sacred Heart Convent Camp in Shanghai from April 21, 1943 to August 1945. A year later the sisters were moved to a new convent. In 1952 the sisters received exit visas and left China because the government would not allow them to reopen the school. They returned to the United States in November 1952.
Before her years in China, Sister Regina Marie taught at Immaculate Conception School in St. Louis (1923-27); St. Pius School in St. Louis (1927-35); and Christ the King School in Louisville, Ky. (1935-36). On returning from China, Sister Regina Marie taught at St. Joseph School in Rawlins, Wyo., (1953-57); St. John's School in Denver (1957-60); and St. Andrew's School in Rock Fall, Ill. (1960-71). She then moved to Littleton, where she served as a teacher's aide at Havern School until her retirement to Loretto Motherhouse in 1994.
She is survived by a cousin who resides in Virginia.
Memorial donations may be sent to assist the Motherhouse Infirmary. Send to Sisters of Loretto Development Office, 300 E. Hampden Ave., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80110-2661.
Funeral arrangements were made through Mattingly Funeral Home in Loretto, Ky.
Sister Mary Liquori Horvat dies at 88
Native Denverite, college professor
Sister Mary Liguori Horvat, 88, a Sister of Charity of Leavenworth, died unexpectedly on Oct. 4 at Providence Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan.
Lillian Horvat was born April 29,1913, in Denver, the oldest of 13 children of Michael P. and Caroline Boytz Horvat. She graduated from Annunciation grade and high schools.
She entered the religious community of the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth on Sept. 7, 1932, and, as Sister Mary Liguori, made her profession of vows July 17, 1934.
After profession, she received her A.B. in biology from Saint Mary College, Leavenworth, Kan.; her M.A. in biology and her Ph.D. from Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. After graduation she taught at Bishop Ward High School, Kansas City, Kan.
For 33 years she was an instructor, chairperson and professor in the biology department at Saint Mary College. She was then elected to a six-year term as community councilor. In 1983 she received the honor of professor emeritus at Saint Mary College. She served in the college library, catalog department; was coordinator of the motherhouse blue print room; was a representative of the Archdiocesan Mission Committee; and was the SCL Mission Supply Department manager. She retired to Ross Hall in September 1993, but continued to keep an effective and efficient blue print room.
Survivors include four sisters: Loretta Horvat, Wheat Ridge; Mary Lorian Horvat, Lakewood; Irene Dunnebecke, Denver; and Josephine Volosin, Great Bend, Kan. Additionally, she is survived by four sister-in-laws: Olga Horvat, Wheat Ridge; Helen, Grace and Virginia Horvat of Denver; and many nieces, nephews, cousins, students and friends.
A vigil was held Oct. 7 in Ross Chapel of the Sisters of Charity Motherhouse in Leavenworth. Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated in Ross Chapel Oct. 8. Interment was at Mount Olivet Cemetery on the motherhouse grounds. Memorial contributions may be made to the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Retirement Fund, 4200 S. Fourth St., Leavenworth, KS 66048.
Sister Maxine Inkel dies at 76
Author, teacher taught in Denver
Sister Maxine (formerly Rolande) Inkel, a Sister of Loretto, died Oct. 2 at the Sisters of Loretto Motherhouse in Nerinx, Ky.
She joined the community in 1944 and made her first vows in 1947. Sister Maxine's life was celebrated at a Memorial Mass Oct. 5 at the motherhouse and she was buried at the cemetery there.
Sister Maxine was born July 30, l925, in Barre, Vt. She attended Bishop Toolen High School in Mobile, Ala. She earned a bachelor's degree in music from Webster College (now university) in 1957 and a master's degree in elementary education from the University of Notre Dame in 1966.
She spent 40-plus years as a teacher in many states from the 1940s into the early 1990s. After that she continued her love of teaching by publishing articles, features, short stories and poetry about teaching. Her paperback book, "100 Fun Ways to Livelier Lessons," was published by Twenty-Third Publication in 1995. She wrote for Religion Teacher's journal, Teacher magazine, Instructor, and the Catholic Teacher's Journal.
Sister Maxine taught in St. Louis, 1947; Kansas City, Mo., 1948; Denver, 1948-53 and 1962-63; Havern School in Denver, 1966; St. Mary's Academy Grade School in Denver, 1967; Blessed Sacrament School in Denver, 1971; St. Vincent's School in Denver, 1972; a school in California, 1953-55; a school in El Paso, Texas, 1955-61, Loretto Academy in El Paso, 1969; a school in Santa Fe, N.M., 1961-62; and a school in Highwood, Ill., 1963-66.
Sister Maxine then spent a year as an aide at Mercy Hospital in Denver. She returned to teaching: Rhode's Tutoring Center in Denver, 1974, and again in 1983; St. Monica School in Barre, Vt., 1978; Myrtle Grove, Fla., 1982; and St. Andrew's Parish in Montgomery, Ala., 1986.
In the early 1990s she lived at Loretto Center in St. Louis and retired to the motherhouse in 1998. Sister Maxine is survived by three sisters and two brothers. One of her siblings, Sister Simone Inkel, is a Sister of Loretto and lives in St. Meinrad, Ind. Her other sisters live in Texas and New York; her brothers live in Indiana and California.
Memorial donations may be sent to the Loretto Retirement Fund. Send to Sisters of Loretto Development office, 300 E. Hampden Ave., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80110-2661.
Funeral arrangements were made through Mattingly Funeral Home in Loretto, Ky.
Sister Ann Maureen McCabe dies at 81
Sister of Charity of Cincinnati Ann Maureen McCabe died in St. Francis Nursing Center, Colorado Springs, Oct. 2. Born Anna Mae McCabe on Jan. 26, 1920, in Cincinnati, she celebrated her 60th year as a Sister of Charity this year.
"Sister Ann Maureen was a blessing to all of us," said her friend of many years, Sister of Charity Rosalie Riggio. "She was a happy person and a prayerful person, and she dedicated her life to many people, especially the many children she taught. She touched the lives of so many of those children and their families."
A teacher for more than 50 years, she taught at Sacred Heart School (1954-61) and St. Rose of Lima (1977-78) in Denver. She also served as principal at Loyola School (1963-69).
In the 1970s Sister Ann Maureen was asked to establish a Family Religious Education Program at St. Joseph Parish, Pueblo.
"The five years in religious education brought many new friends and opportunities to serve, but being deeply rooted in elementary education and preferring to be with the children on a daily basis prompted me to seek employment once again in elementary education," Sister Ann Maureen later wrote.
She also served at schools in Pueblo and Trinidad; Albuquerque, N.M.; and Cincinnati. She ended her career at Pauline Memorial Catholic School, Colorado Springs. Sister Ann Maureen taught at the school from 1978-88, at which time she took an educational sabbatical. She returned in 1989 as assistant to the principal, staying until she retired in 1996. She was the last Sister of Charity to serve at the school.
Sister Ann Maureen, the seventh of eight children of John and Mary Ann McCabe, attended business college after high school and worked for a short period of time before deciding to enter the Sisters of Charity congregation in 1941.
She had taught in Cincinnati for several years when she contracted tuberculosis in 1946 and was sent to Glockner Sanatorium (now Penrose Hospital) in Colorado Springs. During her year of treatment and recuperation, she came to love the West. She was grateful to be able to spend most of the next 55 years there.
From 1961-63 Sister Ann Maureen was administrator at St. Vincent Home for Girls in Santa Fe, N.M., a home for girls ages 6-18 who were wards of the state.
"These years were very happy and fulfilling years for me," she once said. "I was given the opportunity to bring happiness and security into the lives of these young people and help them to restore their self-esteem."
Sister Ann Maureen earned a bachelor's in education from the College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati, in 1958 and a master's in administration and elementary education from St. Mary College, Leavenworth, Kan., in 1970.
Sister of Charity Catherine Laboure McCabe, who is Sister Ann Maureen's biological sister, remembered how the two would spend summers together at the College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati. "Once Anna Mae (Sister Ann Maureen) put a note on my door that said, `Come over and we'll kill a quart.' I was mortified that people would think she meant a quart of beer, when it was actually a quart of ice cream. She was a very lively person," said Sister Catherine Laboure. Sister Ann Maureen is survived by her sister, Sister of Charity Catherine Laboure McCabe, and two brothers, George and Harold, all of Cincinnati, and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by siblings Robert, Louis, Charles and Justin. Visitation and Mass of Christian burial was held Oct. 8 in the Immaculate Conception chapel at the motherhouse, followed by burial in the motherhouse cemetery. A memorial service for Sister Ann Maureen McCabe was held later in Colorado Springs. Memorials can be made in Sister Ann Maureen McCabe's name to the Sisters of Charity Retirement Fund, 5900 Delhi Road, Mount St. Joseph, OH 45051.
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