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 Sr.
Kateri McCaffrey, OP
August 22, 1923 - April 2, 2009
I will dwell in the house of the Lord as long as I shall live.
Psalm 23
On April 2, 2009, Sr. Kateri McCaffrey died at Mohun Health Care Center. She was born in New York, NY, on August 22, 1923, to Thomas and Catherine (Herrick) McCaffrey. She entered the Novitiate of the Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Springs in Columbus in 1942 and made her Profession of Vows in 1944. Sister served as principal at St. William GS, East Pittsburgh (1962-65).
Sr. Kateri earned a BA from St. Mary of the Springs College (now Ohio Dominican University) and an MA from DePaul University in Chicago, IL. Her ministry in education brought her to many schools:
- St. Lawrence, Pittsburgh, PA (1944-45)
- St. Aloysius, Wilmerding, PA (1945-48)
- St. Vincent Ferrer GS, New York, NY (1948-51)
- St. Mark, Brooklyn, NY (1951-56)
- Annunciation, New York, NY (1956-57)
- Holy Trinity, Somerset, OH (1957-58)
- St. Jane de Chantal, Chicago, IL (1958-62)
- St. William GS, East Pittsburgh (1962-65) as principal
- Mary Immaculate HS, Ossining, NY (1967-68)
- St. Thomas HS, Braddock, Pa (1968-76)
- St. Philip, Columbus, OH (1976-77)
- St. Mary HS, New Haven, CT (1977-79,1982-88)
- Northwest Catholic, West Hartford, CT (1979-82)
- St. Anne Mission, Philo, OH (1988-90)
- Dominican Academy, New York, NY (1990-2000)
Sr. Kateri was one of the original four sisters from the Congregation to open our mission in Chimbote, Peru in 1966. She retired and did volunteer services at the Motherhouse before coming to Mohun Health Care Center in 2009.
Sister was preceded in death by her parents, her brothers James, Fr. John, Fr. Thomas and Eugene, and her sisters Kathleen McKay and Maureen Maguire. She is survived by a sister-in-law and many nieces and nephews.
Memorial gifts in Sr. Kateri's honor
may be sent to Dominican Sisters of Peace, 2320 Airport
Drive, Columbus, OH 43219. For a convenient printable donation form, click here. |
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