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Today my great-aunt Sr. Adelle Carrigan passed away, a few months shy of 99 years old. She was the youngest of three sisters. I never met the third sister, as she'd moved to California before I was born, but they're all gone now. I don't know when my one great-uncle on that side died, but my maternal grandfather passed away over 20 years ago. None of my mother's side of the family older than her generation now remain. I think I have one paternal great-aunt left, both grandmothers died within the past few years.
Sr. Adelle taught at Mount Mary College, an all-female Catholic college in Milwaukee, until about her 75th birthday, after which she retired to a convent in Elm Grove (IIRC...might be in Brookfield, it's near the border between the two) that specialized in retired nuns. She'd been in decline for a while now, and last week they removed the various tubes and life support from her, so I knew this was coming.
If there is a God, hopefully He's enough like the one she gave her life to that she's doing okay now. And she did live long enough to get to see her great-grand-nieces (or however that's constructed...her sister's great-granddaughters).
Sr. Adelle taught at Mount Mary College, an all-female Catholic college in Milwaukee, until about her 75th birthday, after which she retired to a convent in Elm Grove (IIRC...might be in Brookfield, it's near the border between the two) that specialized in retired nuns. She'd been in decline for a while now, and last week they removed the various tubes and life support from her, so I knew this was coming.
If there is a God, hopefully He's enough like the one she gave her life to that she's doing okay now. And she did live long enough to get to see her great-grand-nieces (or however that's constructed...her sister's great-granddaughters).
