Hi, all -
from the Providence (RI) Journal:
SISTER MARY ROSE McCAFFREY, East Providence, RI
Publication Date: February 21, 1999
Obituary: SISTER MARY ROSE McCAFFREY, RSM, 90, of St. Mary Convent, Bay
View, 3070
Pawtucket
Ave., died Friday at Rhode Island Hospital.
Born in Providence, she was a daughter of the late Frank and Mary Ann
(Carr)
McCaffrey. She was baptised
Rose Eleanor McCaffrey.
Sister Mary Rose entered the Sisters of Mercy on Jan. 1, 1929, and was
professed
Aug. 17, 1931.
Sister taught at St. Joseph School and the former Immaculate
Conception
and Tyler Schools, in Providence.
She was the superior and principal at St. Patrick School, Cumberland,
principal at Sts.
Peter & Paul School, West Warwick, superior and principal at St.
Leo and
St. Theresa Schools, both in
Pawtucket, superior at St. Aloysius Home, Greenville, superior and
treasurer at Salve Regina College,
Newport, and librarian at St. Matthew School, Cranston.
From 1978 to 1985, she did pastoral care in the Cathedral of SS.
Peter & Paul Parish. Sister retired to St. Mary Convent, Bay View, in 1985.
She was a graduate of the Catholic Teachers College of Rhode Island and
received a
bachelor of science
degree in library science from Villanova University and a doctorate
from
Providence College.
She leaves a nephew, William Warburton of Exeter, and a niece,
Maureen
Daly of Staten Island, N.Y. She
was the sister of the late Rev. Ralph M. McCaffrey, OP, Francis,
James,
John and Vincent McCaffrey and
Mary Rose Marshall.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Tuesday at 10 a.m.
in St. Mary Convent Chapel, Bay View, 3070 Pawtucket Ave. Burial will be
in
Resurrection Cemetery,
Cumberland.
and this from the RI Marriage index:
CARR, Mary A. McCaffrey, Frank 96-536-28 11/10/1896
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Johnston, RI USA
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