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Sr. Mary Francis Lynch, OP

February 8, 1910 – September 1, 2003

I will dwell in the house of the Lord as long as I shall live.
Psalm 23

On Monday, September 1, 2003, Sr. Mary Francis Lynch died at Mt. Carmel East Medical Center. Sr. Mary Francis was born in New York City on February 8, 1910. Her parents, Michael and Bridget (Sullivan) Lynch raised Sr. Mary Francis (Mary Anna) in Holy Cross Parish in New York City. She is survived by several nieces and grand-nieces including Candy Baxter, Helen Payton, Jennifer Parsons and Bernice Hillsgrove. Among her close friends are members of the family of Robert San Falippe. She will be greatly missed by her family, friends and members of her congregation, the Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Springs. Sr. Mary Francis entered the Dominican Novitiate in Columbus in 1928 and pronounced her vows in 1930.

Sr. Mary Francis attended Holy Cross Elementary School in New York City and received her high school diploma from St. Mary of the Springs Academy and her B.S. from St. Mary of the Springs College (now Ohio Dominican University). She did graduate work in Business Education at the Catholic University of America and taught commercial subjects starting in 1944. Recently, Sr. Mary Francis had resided in Mohun Health Care Center where her ministry was that of prayer. She noted that "Prayer gives me
wings."

Sr. Mary Francis taught at St. Mary Lancaster and tutored at Bishop Watterson High School in the Columbus Diocese, and at St. Thomas in Braddock and St. William in the Pittsburgh area . She taught at Sacred Heart in Coshocton, Ohio from 1950 to 1956 and was principal there from 1954 to 1956. In New York, Sr. Mary Francis taught at St. Augustine in Ossining, St. Andrew in Flushing, and at Dominican Academy, Annunciation and St. Vincent Ferrer in New York City. While in Connecticut, she taught at St. Mary High School in New Haven and Northwest Catholic in West Hartford where she introduced the new DDC Timing Record in her typing classes.

Memorial gifts in Sister Mary Francis Lynch's honor may be sent to Dominican Sisters, St. Mary of the Springs, 2320 Airport Drive, Columbus, OH 43219.