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This year we join in gratitude for the sisters who are celebrating their significant jubilee years in 2021. With their photos, you will find the city where they entered, as well as their motto, which appears engraved on the ring each sister received upon professing their vows. Additionally, many Sisters have written a reflection about her years as a Sister of Mercy, which you can read by clicking on her name. We also invite you to write a congratulatory message and/or honor the Sister with a gift in her name through links available on her individual page.

25 Years

Sister Sherry Dolan
Entered: Burlingame, California
Motto: I am your beloved

 

60 Years

Sister Margaret Barrett
Entered: Chicago, Illinois
Motto: Christ before me

Sister Jeanne Christensen
Entered: Omaha, Nebraska
Motto: Love Never Ends

 

Sister Joy Clough
Entered: Chicago, Illinois
Motto: Practice the truth in love

Sister Karen Donahue
Entered: Chicago, Illinois
Motto: Yes

 

Sister Mary Finnegan
Entered: Chicago, Illinois
Motto: Yes amen

Sister Ann Flanagan
Entered: Chicago, Illinois
Motto: Sowing Hope

 

Sister Marie Shawn Grassberger
Entered: Chicago, Illinois
Motto:

Sister Patricia “Patsy” Harney
Entered: Burlingame, California
Motto: I am with you always

 

Sister Mary Ann Hills
Entered: Burlingame, California
Motto: Cry the Gospel with your life

Sister Mary Eloise Hirlemann
Entered: Detroit, Michigan
Motto: I love you

 

Sister Nancy Jones
Entered: Detroit, Michigan
Motto: Trust in God and Live

Sister Rosanne McGrath
Entered: Burlingame, California
Motto: To HIM be glory

 

Sister Nancy Ponzi
Entered: Chicago, Illinois
Motto: Into your hands, O Lord

Sister Marian Schultz
Entered: Detroit, Michigan
Motto: Alleluia

 

Sister Sally Smolen
Entered: Omaha, Nebraska
Motto: Always With Love

Sister Susan Vickers
Entered: Burlingame, California
Motto: I joy in the shadow of your wings

 

Sister Mary Louise Yurik
Entered: Detroit, Michigan
Motto: Jesus

 

70 Years

Sister M. Carol Baetz
Entered: Burlingame, California
Motto: Ecce Ancilla Domini; Fiat Mihi Secundum Verbum Tuum..

Sister Marguerite Buchanan
Entered: Burlingame, California
Motto: “Behold: your mother” (John 19:27)

 

Sister Roxanne Dolak
Entered: Marion, Iowa
Motto: My Jesus, Mercy

Sister Bernadette Mary Frank
Entered: Detroit, Michigan
Motto: Fiat Voluntas Tua–May Your Will Be Done

 

Sister Lois Graver
Entered: Des Plaines, Illinois
Motto: Be It Done Unto Me

Sister Colette Jolie
Entered: Des Plaines, Illinois
Motto: Only Thyself, Lord

 

Sister Mary Clare Manhart
Entered: Council Bluffs, Iowa
Motto: Suscipe Me Domine 

Sister Mary Paulette O’Connell
Entered: Chicago, Illinois
Motto: For Thee my Lord

 

Sister Jeanine Salak
Entered: Council Bluffs, Iowa
Motto: Christ liveth in me

Sister Jean Schulte
Entered: Des Plaines, Illinois
Motto: Not I, but Christ

 

Sister Augusta Stratz
Entered: Detroit, Michigan
Motto: All for You Dear Jesus

 

75 Years

Sister Elizabeth Mary Burns
Entered: Detroit, Michigan
Motto: All for Thee Through Mary

Sister Lois Burroughs
Entered: Detroit, Michigan
Motto: In Te Domine Speravi

 

Sister Mary del Rey Ekler
Entered: Council Bluffs, Iowa
Motto: Dominus est. Fiat

Sister Mary Anita Iddings
Entered: Burlingame, California
Motto: Thou in me and I in Thee

 

80 Years

Sister Mary Rosalie FitzPatrick
Entered: Des Plaines, Illinois
Motto: My God and My All