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Lorraine Therese Beinkafner, Maryknoll Sister For 73 Years, Dies
Sister Lorraine Therese Beinkafner, M.M. died on Friday, Oct. 18, at the Maryknoll Sisters Center in Maryknoll. She was 90 years old and had been a Maryknoll Sister for 73 years.
Lorraine was born in Albany on Nov. 23, 1928, to Mary (Brust) Beinkafner and Charles J. Beinkafner. She had two sisters and one brother, Marjorie Ann, Virginia and Paul; all of whom have predeceased her.
She attended Holy Names Academy in Albany from 1942 through 1946. After graduating, she entered the Maryknoll Sisters Novitiate in Pennsylvania at the Venard on Oct. 5, 1946 (from her home Parish of St. Thomas in D…
Joan Crevcoure, Maryknoll Sister For 73 Years, Dies
Sister Joan Crevcoure, M.M. died on Friday, Oct. 18 at the Maryknoll Sisters Center in Maryknoll. She was 93 years old and had been a Maryknoll Sister for 73 years.
Joan Crevcoure was born in Green Bay, WI on Oct. 12, 1926 to May B. (Fortier) Crevcoure and J. M. Crevcoure. She had one brother and one sister, both of whom have predeceased her.
Joan attended West High School in Green Bay from 1940 through 1944. Following graduation, she attended Rosary College in River Forest, IL from 1944 to 1946. She then entered the Maryknoll Sisters Novitiate in Maryknoll on Oct. 5, 1946 (from Annunciatio…
Mary Elizabeth Keyser, 98, Maryknoll Sister For 80 Years
Sister Mary Elizabeth Keyser, 98, died on Tuesday, July 24 at the Maryknoll Sisters Center in Ossining.
She had been a Maryknoll Sister for 80 years.
A Mass of Christian Burial will take place at 11 a.m. on Friday, July 27 in the Main Chapel at the Maryknoll Sisters Center, 10 Pinesbridge Road, Ossining. Interment will follow in the Maryknoll Sisters Cemetery on the Center grounds.
Mary Elizabeth was born in Philadelphia, PA, on May 3, 1920, to Della (Haney) Keyser and Henry Nelson Keyser. She has two surviving relatives: her brother, Nelson Keyser, and her niece, Mary Jane Robinson.
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