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Our Future and Land Justice
...https://www.justia.com/native-american-law/hunting-and-fishing-rights-of-native-americans/ Land Justice Futures (2026). Healing Stories on Sacred Lands. Retrieved 3/24/3026. https://www.landjusticefutures.org/ Library of Congress Digital Collection (n.d.). The First Peoples of California. California as I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California’s Early Years, 1849 to 1900. https://www.loc.gov/collections/california-first-person-narratives/articles-and-essays/early-california-history/first-peoples-of-california/ Molina, Alejandra. National Catholic Reporter (March 16, 2021). Why Oak Flat in Arizona is a Sacred Place. https://www.ncronline.org/news/why-oak-flat-arizona-sacred-space-apache-and-other-native-americansl Native American Rights Fund. (n.d.) Bering Sea Elders Group. https://narf.org/cases/bering-sea-elders-group/ Onondaga Nation People of the Hills. (September 24, 2022). Agreement Transferring 1,000 Acres...
Martha Rojo
Sister Martha was born of Mexican parents in Van Nuys, California, where she attended St Elisabeth School. She is bi-lingual and bi-cultural. Sister Martha, formerly Sister Maria Cruz, entered the Congregation on Sept. 12, 1965, and professed final vows on Dec. 12, 1976. Presently, Sister Martha is a Spanish bereavement team volunteer at her home parish and conducts Communion services for the residents of Atria Assisted Living and Memory Care in Newhall, California. For 11 years, she taught elementary grades...
Marywood High School, California
...3 years ago. (August 2024) Linda Zepfel Crowley Class of 1963 After graduating from Santa Clara, and two years in the Peace Corps, my husband and I lived in Phoenix for 50 years but now are living on the Oregon Coast. Our son and daughter and 6 grandchildren live nearby. Life is good! (May 2024) Karen Joan (Shoemaker) Bouman December 31, 1946 – January 27, 2025 Karen Joan Bouman, “Nana” of Lompoc, California, passed away at home on January 27,...
Bernadette Mary Carroll
...in education from Indiana State University. She ministered as a teacher for 28 years in schools in Indiana and California. Her first teaching ministry took place in 1941 at St. Elizabeth, Van Nuys, California. She was also a member of the sisters’ General Council for five years before beginning a ministry as a retreat hostess for Marywood Center in the Diocese of Orange, California. She returned to the Motherhouse in 2012. Sister Bernadette Mary received the Ecclesiastical Honors from Pope...
Edna Scheller
...schools in North Carolina, Indiana and California. Sister Edna also ministered as principal at Good Shepherd in Evansville (seven years); Good Shepherd in Pacifica, California (three years); St. Ambrose in Hollywood, California (six years); and Sacred Heart School in Clinton, Indiana (seven years). Here is a list of her complete ministries: In Indiana: Teacher, St. Catherine, Indianapolis (1956-57); Teacher, St. Bridget, Indianapolis (1957-65); Teacher, St. Luke, Indianapolis (1965-68); Teacher, St. Thomas Aquinas (1968-70); Teacher, Good Shepherd, Evansville (1970-77); Health Care...
General Superiors
...River Grove, Illinois. Marywood School in California was transferred from Anaheim to Orange, with construction of new buildings there. Expenses incurred by these projects made it necessary to procure a loan. She organized and furthered plans for the division of the Congregation into regional areas and introduced a more representative form of local government in the regions in accordance with Canon Law for Religious. Projects already begun for the higher education of the sisters were continued. The sisters were encouraged...
Meet some newer members
...and the welcoming and joyful spirit. Sister Jessica Vitente Hometown: Pomona, California Entrance date and age at time: Sept. 10, 2018; 34 Education and work prior to entering: Associates of Science in Accounting from Mt. San Antonio College; Bachelor of Arts in Human Development from California State University of Long Beach; worked in sales for a distributing company. Education/ministries since joining: living in formation house; music lessons; volunteer Helping hands, Linden Leaf gift shop, Sisters of Providence Mission Advancement office, Catholic...
Sisters of Providence celebrate Senior Jubilees
...1965. She graduated from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College with a bachelor’s degree in education. She earned a master’s degree in special education from Indiana University, and another master’s degree in pastoral theology from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. Her ministries include: Terre Haute, Indiana: Teacher, St. Margaret Mary (1961-62), Chicago: Teacher, St. Leo (1962-65), Lafayette: Teacher, St. Mary (1965-67), Van Nuys, California: Teacher, St. Elisabeth (1967-69), Orange, California: Teacher, Providence Speech and Hearing Center (1969-71), Gardena, California: Teacher, St. Anthony (1976-78), Gardena: Principal,...
Mary Esther Lane
...Sister of Providence for 83 years. Sister Mary Esther entered the Congregation on Aug. 15, 1933. She professed final vows in 1942. Sister Mary Esther ministered as a teacher in schools in Indiana, Illinois and California. In 1979, she began a ministry at a Retreat Center in Orange, California, and in 1983, she began serving at St. Elizabeth in Van Nuys, California. She returned to the Woods in 1995. “Mary Lane Road” in Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Village is named after her....
Cecilia Carter
A native of California, Sister Cecilia, formerly Sister Mary Cecilia, entered the Congregation in 1952 and was a Sister of Providence for 66 years. Sister Cecilia earned a bachelor’s degree in music from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and ministered as a teacher for 41 years in schools in Indiana, Illinois, Maryland and California. Most of her teaching ministry was spent in California, including three different stints at St. Elizabeth in Van Nuys. She returned home to the Woods in 2002....
Katherine Manley
...Indiana University. She also has a master’s degree in pastoral theology from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. Her teaching ministry began in 1961 at St. Margaret Mary in Terre Haute. Sister Kay taught elementary school for many years and was also Director and teacher of Pre-School/School Programs at Providence Speech and Hearing Center in Orange, California. She was also the principal at St. Anthony of Padua School in Gardena, California, for 10 years. Following 21 years in California, she ministered as Administrator...
Janice Smith
...University. She taught in the public school system in Ohio for eight years before moving to Southern California, changing her career path and working as a technology instructor at Hewlett-Packard for seven years before becoming the district manager of Customer Education for Southern California and the Rocky Mountain States for an additional seven years. During that time, Sister Janice decided to “change my life path once again and entered religious life as a Sister of Providence.” She entered the Congregation...