(1938-2016)

Sister Joan Mary Dwyer was born in Detroit on April 1, 1938, to Clifford and Vivian (Adkins) Dwyer. Her father was Catholic, but not her mother. Two weeks after she was born, Joan developed pneumonia and received an emergency baptism and the name Joan Patricia. She was formally baptized before her First Communion on March 23, 1947.   

In her autobiography, Sister Joan said that her parents divorced and remarried and that she was the oldest of four brothers and three sisters.

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(1932-2016)

Sister Janet Michael began her story with the marriage of her parents Helen Rebbe and Harvey Hudspeth in 1928 at Holy Redeemer Church in Detroit. Because her father was not Catholic, they were married in the rectory. Jobs were hard to find during the Great Depression and so they moved to Petersburg, Illinois, where they lived on the family farm.  

Sister Janet was born in Petersburg on July 23, 1932, and baptized Peggy Joan. She was the second of five children born into the Hudspeth family. The family moved to Chester, Illinois, when her father found a job at Southern Illinois Penitentiary as a prison guard. They lived there for seven years and then moved to Detroit when her father found a better job in a factory.

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(1926-2016)

Sister Virginia Therese, baptized Eleanor Conway, was born on January 13, 1926, in Chicago. She and her brother William were the two children born to William C. and Eleanor (Brown) Conway. Her father was born in Rochester, New York, and was a broker. Her mother was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania.   

Sister Virginia gave very few details about her early life, only that her father traveled frequently, that the family had a summer home on Lake Michigan, and that one of the care-takers became a close friend with whom she had fond memories.

Sister Virginia was educated at St. Laurence Grade School and Aquinas High School.  After graduating in 1944, she enrolled in Siena Heights College and studied full-time for two years before entering the postulate in June 23, 1946, at the age of twenty. The following year, her father died of a heart aneurysm on June 3, 1947.

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Memorial gifts may be made to Adrian Dominican Sisters, 1257 East Siena Heights Drive, Adrian, Michigan, 49221. Funeral arrangements are being handled by Anderson Funeral Home, Adrian.

 

 

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(1927-2016)

Sister Patricia Dillon was born on December 1, 1927, in Royal Oak, Michigan. She was the fourth of seven children born to Leo and Adelaide (Sortor) Dillon. 

During the Depression, her father lost his shoe store in Royal Oak and the family moved to New York so he could look for work as a shoe salesman in Brooklyn. He eventually found a job in Philadelphia and the family settled in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania.

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