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Print Issue: May 3, 2001

Sister Celine Gorman, CSJ, Dies; Taught In Georgia

ST. LOUIS, Mo.—Sister Celine Gorman, CSJ, who spent many of her 73 years as a Religious teaching in Georgia, died April 23 at St. Anthony Medical Center of complications from surgery. She was 92.

Sister Gorman, who was born June 15, 1908 in Chicago, entered the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet on Sept. 11, 1927. She made her final profession on Aug. 15, 1933. She was the daughter of Patrick and Anne Liston Gorman.

She served as a teacher, administrator, assistant provincial and director of religious education.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Fontbonne College in St. Louis in 1945. She went on to earn a master’s degree in education from De Paul University in Chicago in 1950 and a master’s degree in religious education from Loyola University in Chicago in 1970.

Sister Gorman’s first role was as an administrator and teacher at Sacred Heart School in Atlanta in 1930. In 1953 she became an assistant provincial and teacher at Mount St. Joseph Provincialate in Augusta. In 1955, she went to Minneapolis, where she served as a teacher at Holy Angels School. She returned to Augusta in 1957 to teach at Aquinas High School and then in 1961 went to Chicago to teach at Little Flower High School. From 1964-69, she returned to teach at St. Pius X High School in Atlanta. She served as a pastoral minister at St. Joseph School and Parish in Marietta from 1969-74. In 1974, she became the religious education regional consultant at the Catholic Center in Miami and then served at Christ the King School in Atlanta as the religious education coordinator and religious education director from 1974 until her retirement to the Nazareth Living Center in St. Louis in 1996.

The Mass of the Resurrection was celebrated April 26 at the Nazareth Living Center. She was buried at Nazareth Cemetery. There are no immediate family survivors.

Donations in her name may be made to the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, 6400 Minnesota Ave., St. Louis, Mo. 63111.