(1942 – 2015)
Sister Susan Marie Ouwerkerk was born on May 8, 1942, the only child of Arnold Ouwerkerk from Leyden, Holland, the Netherlands, and Edna Irene Anderson, from Bay City, Michigan. After trying for ten years to have a child, her parents had gone to see Father Solanus who blessed her mother and said she would bear one child. After Susan’s birth her father became a Catholic because he believed they needed to be united in faith as a family. 
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For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven
Book of Ecclesiastes, 3:1

(1924 – 2015)
Sister Therese Groulx, known as Sister Marie Immaculate, was born on December 8, 1924, in Sarnia, Ontario, to Alexander and Marie Louis (Ladouceur) Groulx. She and her brother Roger would have had three other siblings had they lived.
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“Weave Truth with Trust” 
- Motto on the coat of arms of a 12th century weaver’s guild 

(1918 – 2015)
Sister Jean Agnes, baptized Helen Josephine, was born on June 30, 1918, in Des Moines, Iowa, to John and Agnes (Rose) Klemm. She was the eighth of twelve children. Three of the Klemm girls entered the Congregation: Sisters Jeannine, Jean Agnes, and Marcine. 
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Something sacred is at stake in every event
 - Rabbi Abraham Joshua Hescel, God In Search of Man. 

(1938 – 2015)
Sister Jean Joseph Hughes, baptized Patricia M. Breen, was born on May 5, 1938, in Chicago, to Patrick and Jean (Richards) Breen. Her mother had seven sisters and one brother. Sister Jean knew little about her father because her parents separated when she was two years old.
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