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Loretto Sister Rose Liddell dies
By Denver Catholic Register
NERINX, KY.—Loretto Sister Rose Annette Liddell, who served as director of the Thomas Merton Center in Denver and was a longtime music teacher, died March 31 in Nerinx, Ky. She was 82.
Born Jan. 14, 1929, in Atlanta she was baptized Helen Carey Liddell. She entered the Sisters of Loretto in 1946. She made her first vows on April 25, 1949, and her final vows on Aug. 15, 1952.
Sister Liddell earned a bachelor’s degree in music education in 1957 from Webster College (now University) and a master’s in music education in 1964 from DePaul University in Chicago.
In her early years of ministry, she taught music in Louisville, Ky., (1949), and at the parish school at St. Vincent de Paul in Denver (1950 to 1955). She then served in the St. Louis Archdiocese, where she taught music in parish schools until 1961.
She returned to Webster College in 1961 as assistant music professor. At Webster’s College School she developed the Orff Schulwerk music method, a way of teaching music to children. From 1971 to 1974, Sister Liddell served as part of the Loretto staff In Littleton, Colo., working in the areas of community and faith.
She founded the Loretto Retreat Center, Knobs Haven, on the Loretto Motherhouse grounds in Nerinx in 1974. She joined the Loretto Third World Project in 1976 and lived in Thailand, visiting Bangladesh, Hong Kong and Japan.
From 1981 to 1983, she worked with the Center for Interfaith Understanding in Jerusalem. She returned to the United States and again joined the Loretto staff in Littleton. In 1987 she began offering spiritual guidance full time. In 1992 she became director of the Thomas Merton Center in Denver, serving in this capacity through 2010.
Sister Liddell wanted to be buried in the Loretto Motherhouse Cemetery in Nerinx, nearby where her aunt, Loretto Sister Evangelista Bindewald, who died in 1998, had been buried. She arrived to the motherhouse March 30 from Denver. A funeral Mass was held in Nerinx on April 2. A memorial Mass was held in Denver on April 26.
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