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 Sr.
Marilyn Williams, OP
Diamond Jubilarian
60 years (August 14, 1944)
Sr. Marilyn Williams grew up in Holy Name parish in Steubenville, Ohio,
and, like her Irish mother always did, still likes a cup of tea in the
afternoon. Sr. Marilyn, who now lives at St. Mary of the Springs in Columbus,
has found her life as a Dominican “full and fascinating.”
As a primary school teacher, Sr. Marilyn began her career in Braddock,
Pennsylvania. While she taught several years at Christ the King in Columbus,
she actually became a New Yorker for many years, teaching at St. Vincent
Ferrer (Manhattan), St. Augustine (Ossining), and St. Andrew Flushing.
Wherever she taught, diminutive Sr. Marilyn loved her first graders. Perhaps
it was because she was close to them in height, or that her soft voice
gentled them into compliance, but she freely admits, “the primary
grades were my favorite.”
In 1979, Sr. Marilyn offered her hospitality skills to the support services
staff at the St. Francis/St. George Hospital in Cincinnati. As the receptionist
there for the next eleven years, she welcomed visitors and patients alike
and served the local Dominican community. Subsequently she was receptionist
at the St. Vincent Ferrer convent in New York for nine years.
Now back at her community’s Motherhouse, Sr. Marilyn’s ministry
is as a daily visitor to the sick. “I enjoy visiting and talking
with the infirm sisters in Mohun Health Care Center,” Sr. Marilyn
confides. On celebrating sixty years in religious life Sr. Marilyn says,
“I wouldn’t trade it for any other way of life!”
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