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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 bachelors degree in history from Fontbonne
College in St. Louis in 1945. She went on to earn a masters degree in
education from De Paul University in Chicago in 1950 and a masters degree
in religious education from Loyola University in Chicago in 1970.
Sister Gormans 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. |