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Class of 1945

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1945 Class Notes

2015

I was so glad to hear that four of our classmates attended the Reunion! This was just the second reunion I had to miss. The other time was the one that came too close to the birth of our fourth daughter to leave. And now it is difficult to travel.

Ann Gormly was there along with Katie Esdohr Dillon, Natalie Cregg Ballard, and Sister Margaret. The mood was joyous. The mass was said by the brother of Sister Seton Cunneen ‛65. She and Seton were about to be off to Europe for a retreat for Jubilarians.

Ann Gormly celebrated her 90th birthday last year in Roscommon County, Ireland and met members of her mother’s clan, the younger ones of whom she had not met. To celebrate this year, she just returned from an SND Heritage retreat in Namur, Belgium. She began it with a small pilgrimage to Amiens and Cuvilly, retracing sites in the life of our foundress, St. Julie Billiart before she founded the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. She lives with Sister Seton Cunneen ‛65. Her retired priest brother lives in Harding Township, NJ and she travels up to visit him from time to time.

Katie found pleasure in the Reunion though missed more classmates. She still lives in their family home of 58 years and enjoys gardening, city living, and keeping in touch with her large family.

Natalie also enjoyed the royal treatment extended at reunion. She sold her house a year ago and has moved in with her son in Fort Bragg, California. She is doing well though, she finds it quite a change from Mass and feels fortunate to have her son who looks out for her every need.

One of the first to respond was Mary Scannell Slattery. She is still living in her home in Old Orchard Beach and enjoying the ocean and people around her. Her daughter lives with her and helps her with daily living, and her children and grandchildren are nearby. She keeps in touch with Joan Forsyth Harmon and Sister Margaret.

Mary Clayton Crozier is still alive and graduated from Mt. Holyoke in 1946, and had a long history working in communications and journalism in Boston and is volunteering with the Ward 5 Democratic Committee in Boston in communications. She is very active in the community. At one time, she headed up publicity for a local television station. She also has two grown children.

A leisurely chat by phone with Genevieve Lavins Lohmuller had us reminiscing about a TC trip we had both taken with Sister Margaret, along with other classmates, back in ’97, traveling across Ireland studying its literature and history. Genevieve and her husband moved to a retirement community some four years ago where Herb died this past May. Last year she and Herb celebrated their birthdays with a party and every one of their children/spouses, grandchildren/spouses, and great-grandchildren were there. All 70! And the family continues to grow with two new great-grands.

Margaret Shuk Burbank, though still a Conn Yankee, has lived in Texas a long time. She is still in her home and has the good fortune to have one of her daughters living with her, and her son and his family close by. She still keeps up with housework, gardening, fun times with friends, and still drives.

Sister Alice M. Talone ‛77, sent a copy of an obituary telling of the passing of Mary June Hall Jordan last November only a couple of hours after her beloved husband (Sam) of 67 years. Sadly, our class keeps shrinking.

A phone chat with Jean Sullivan Ross brought word that she is enjoying all the beautiful weather year round while living with her daughter Mary and husband Warren in Maine in the summer, which is quiet, and Florida in winter, which is busy.

Anne O’Donnell Clark reports that she and Frank are happy living in their senior community where, among other pleasures, they can enjoy daily mass. They enjoy occasional visits from their four children and Facebook keeps them in touch with their ten grandchildren and six great grandchildren, and they are involved in the lives of many nieces and nephews who live in the area. She and Frank feel blessed to have had each other for 68 years.

I find living here in my continuing care residence is a good place for me to be able to live without the daily cares of yore, knowing that help is here should I need it. I’m as central as I was to my family. I didn’t move far from where I was, and do still drive, so I still keep up with old friends and former activities as well as adding more social contacts inside my present environment

It was so good to hear from each of you. I hope you all have a good year and we’ll hear that from you and more next year. God bless.

Nan Hogan Mackinson
macknancy9@gmail.com

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1945 In Memoriam

Natalie (Cregg) Ballard

On April 13, 2020, Natalie Cregg Ballard passed away. She was living with family in northern California at the time of her death.

 

Monica (Quirk) Bubser

On January 13, Monica Bubser (nee Quirk) passed away with her five children by her side. She was the beloved wife of the late Andrew E. Bubser,; and cherished mother of Kathy (Sean) O’Toole of Pittsburgh; Sister Ann Monica Bubser, I.H.M., of Scranton; Lynn (Tom) Blewitt, of Dunmore; Drew (Sara) Bubser, of Waverly; and Barbara (Tim) Byrne, of Wayne.
She was also the grandmother to 14 grandchildren and great-grandmother to 16 great-grandchildren.

Visit Monica Bubser’s obituary at Legacy.com.

Anne (O’Donnell) Clark

Anne O’Donnell Clark February 22, 2020 Anne O’Donnell Clark, 96, of 1301 Nottingham Road, Jamesville, New York died on Saturday, February 22, 2020. She is survived by her children, Debora O’Carroll (Thomas), Lawrence Clark (Margaret), Constance Dalbo (Robert) and Mary Clark. She is survived by ten grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren. She is also survived by her sister, Jeanne Quigley and her brother, Edward (Catherine) O’Donnell. She was preceded in death by her husband of 69 years, Frank Bell Clark, her sisters, Mary and Elizabeth, her parents and her beloved nieces and nephews, John, Jim, Susan, Peter and Maureen.

Mary Alice (Wilson) Halloran

Mary Alice Halloran, August 7, 2017. Beloved wife of the late Joseph. Loving mother of Maureen Descovich (Steven), Terence (Catherine), the late Vincent (Marie), Patricia Ketterer (Jeffrey) and James (Christine). Dear sister of Harry Wilson and the late Katherine Dickie. Devoted grandmother of 17 and great grandmother of 3.

Read Mary Alice Halloran’s obituary at legacy.com.

Mary (Hennigan) Hickey

Devoted Daughter, Wife, and Mother Requiescat in Pace Mary Virginia (Hennigan) Hickey. April 25, 1922–May 23, 2020, age 98, died 11:20 a.m., Saturday, May 23, 2020, at the Elizabeth Seton Residence, Wellesley Hills, MA from complications of COVID-19. Born in Boston, MA, she was the second of the four children of James William Hennigan (1890–1969) and Katherine Agnes (Oliver) Hennigan (1894–1983). Mary graduated from Notre Dame Academy in Roxbury, MA in 1941, and from Trinity College, Washington, D.C., in 1945 as an accomplished painter with a Bachelor’s degree in art.

Visit Mary Hickey’s obituary at The Boston Globe.

Genevieve (Lavins) Lohmuller

Nora “Genevieve” Lavins Lohmuller died at Coventry Meadows in Fort Wayne on August 26, five days before her 96th birthday.  Genevieve was a selfless, loving wife and mother to her ten children and their families.

Born to Bernard Sylvester and Nora Genevieve (Clancy) Lavins in Washington, D.C., on August 31, 1924, she graduated from the Academy of Holy Cross at the age of 16 and then attended Trinity College, Washington, D.C.  She majored in biology and minored in chemistry.

While in college during World War II, she worked in the offices of the War Production Board and for the National Bureau of Standards.  At the NBS, she helped develop proximity fuses and assembled transistors and electronic elements.  After completing her bachelor’s degree, she worked for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a bacteriologist testing the drug penicillin in clinical trials.

In 1950, she married Herbert Wendel Lohmuller, M.D. of Philadelphia and assisted in his private medical practice there. While Dr. Lohmuller served in the Army from 1954-56, they lived near Fort Hood, TX, and at the Arizona Navajo Ordinance Depot near Flagstaff, AZ, returning to Philadelphia, afterward.  They moved to Bluffton, IN, in 1968 when Dr. Lohmuller joined the Caylor-Nickel Clinic.

In the Bluffton community, she devoted herself to service.  She volunteered at the reception desk of the Caylor-Nickel Clinic and Hospital, and an avid reader, she was a member and president of the Foltz Literary Club. She began and directed a free childcare center to serve the Bluffton migrant farm families, so the children would not have to accompany their parents into the fields or be left unattended.  Together with her husband Herb, she founded a free healthcare clinic for the migrant families as well.  A member of St. Joseph Parish, Bluffton, she was active as a choir member and cantor, religious education teacher, and member of the parish council and migrant ministry. She was a Third Order Franciscan, member of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women and the ecumenical group Church Women United.

She was immensely proud of her Irish heritage and enjoyed Irish music, history and literature.  She never ceased to impress her children by her vast knowledge of varied subjects and keen abilities to sew, repair broken appliances, rewire lamps and fuses, and cross-pollinate her own plants.

Mrs. Lohmuller is survived by her ten children:  Bernard (Karen), Martin (Jeannie), Mary (John Koors), John (Diane), Theresa (Larry Sell), Paul, Joseph (Ann), Margaret (James Pfister), Catherine (James Cicchiello) and Elizabeth (Ronald Grisoli).  She’s also survived by 30 grandchildren and 41 great-grandchildren.  She was preceded in death by her husband, her sister, Regina Marie (Lavins) Heisler, and her brother, Bernard Joseph Lavins.

Visit Genevieve Lavins Lohmuller’s Obituary at The GMC Family.com.

Sr. Ann Gormly, SNDdeN

GORMLY SISTER ANN GORMLY, SNDdeN Sister Ann Gormly, a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur, died on January 8, 2021 at Mt. Notre Dame Health Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was born in Providence, Rhode Island on June 17, 1924 and is predeceased by her parents, Cecilia Sherwin Gormly and Dr Charles F. Gormly of Providence, her brother Charles S. Gormly and her sister Betty Gormly. After earning her B.A. in French from Trinity College (now Trinity Washington University) in 1945, Sister Ann joined the Congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur where she was a member for 75 years. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D In Spanish from The Catholic University of America. Sister Ann is remembered as a language teacher fluent in Spanish and French, a Dean of Students and a world traveler. In each of these roles she was motivated by her international orientation and her commitment to an intercultural way of life. After teaching French and Spanish for three years in the archdiocesan high schools of Philadelphia, she joined the faculty of Trinity College in 1951 teaching in the Spanish Department. In addition to her responsibility for expanding the curriculum of the Department, she served as Foreign Student Advisor providing robust programming to highlight the cultures of Trinity’s international students. She also sponsored summer study trips for Trinity students and in 1965 led 14 Trinity students to Honduras for eight weeks where they worked among people who lived in wretched poverty. From 1966 to 1971 she served as Dean of Students during the years when Trinity students sponsored sit-in’s and led a student strike. After leaving Trinity in 1971, Sister Ann spent two years in administration for the Congregation and then joined the United States Catholic Mission Association where she served as Associate Director from 1973 to 1987. USMCA is an organization devoted to providing support for missionaries throughout the world. In this support role Ann travelled to five continents and visited 176 countries. After leaving USCMA, she served for five years as Administrative Director for Healthcare for the Homeless in Washington, DC. In her “retirement” years from 1991 to 2009, Ann returned to the place where she had begun, teaching Spanish. She taught as an adjunct professor at Prince George Community College, Northern Virginia Community College, Trinity College and Gonzaga College High School. Yet her treasured teaching experience was the nine years she spent teaching ESL at Casa de Maryland. She enjoyed displaying three tote bags, one for each of her teaching assignments in any given semester. She is survived by her nephew Charles F. Gormly ( Murry) of Kensington, MD, her niece Paula Craine of Prahran Victoria, Australia, her sister-in-law Jean Gormly of Vero Beach, FL and her loving Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur who will miss her wisdom, persistence and love for her friends and family.

Visit Sr. Ann’s Obituary at Legacy.com.

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