July 15, 2009

Dominican Sister Wall served in vocations

Born June 4, 1950, in Butte, Mont., as Terol Lynne Wall, she was the daughter of Martin Joseph Wall and the late Elizabeth Lucille Barry Wall.

She entered the Dominican sisters’ community in Great Bend, Kan., on Sept. 1, 1976, and pronounced her first vows Dec. 31. 1978. Sister Wall celebrated 25 years of religious profession in 2003.

Sister Wall ministered in Social Service in Great Bend from 1977-1980. She was president of St. Joseph Memorial Hospital in Larned, Kan., from 1980-1985. She later served with Habitat for Humanity in Americus, Ga., for two years; was director of Home Health and Hospice in Great Bend for five years; and administered St. Joseph Children’s Home in Salina for two years. She also served in Denver in diocesan housing for two years.

After 2001 she was the Vocation Minister for the Dominican Sisters of Great Bend for seven years.

In the Denver Archdiocese for the last four years, Sister Wall chaired the annual FOCUS 11 Vocations Awareness Days for youths.

At the time of her death Sister Wall was updating her education to reinstate her Social Service license.

Sister Wall is survived by her Dominican Sisters of Peace Community, her father, one sister, Cynthia Jervis of San Ramon, Calif., and one brother, Martin J. Martin III of Novato, Calif. She was preceded in death by her mother.

A Liturgy of Christian Burial was held July 3 at the Dominican Sisters convent in Great Bend.

Burial was in the Dominican Sisters’ Resurrection Cemetery. A memorial service was held July 7 at St. Dominic’s Church in Denver.