Sister Mary Jeannette Crosson, GNSH, died Wednesday, April 14, at West Paces Ferry Hospital in Atlanta after suffering a stroke the day before.

Sister Crosson, a member of the Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart, Yardley, Pa., was on the parish staff at Christ the King Cathedral serving in an extensive ministry to the elderly and housebound. She has spent the last 23 years in the Atlanta archdiocese, first as an elementary school educator at Christ the King School and later in parish ministry.

Her work with the elderly involved visiting them in nursing homes and in their own homes.

“She was a rock for the elderly folks in the parish,” commented Phyllis Wigton, administrative assistant at the Cathedral. “She would pick up their prescriptions, do their grocery shopping, accompany them to doctors; appointments. If they needed something, she was there for them. She was their lifeline.” Sister Crosson was a quiet example of one who went about performing the spiritual and corporal works of mercy, Mrs. Wigton concluded.

Mary Margaret Crosson was born in New York City in 1927. She entered the novitiate of the Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart in Philadelphia in 1947. After completing her education at D’Youville College in Buffalo, N.Y. and St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia she taught in elementary parochial schools in the Philadelphia area, New York and Lowell, Mass.

She has two surviving sisters, Joan Gruspier of Howard Beach, N.Y., and Kathleen Crosson of San Francisco.

Funeral arrangements were incomplete.