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(1932-2024)
Sister Joanne “Jodie” Screes, formerly known as Sister Margaret Eugene, died on Wednesday, June 26, 2024, at the Dominican Life Center in Adrian, Michigan. She was 92 years of age and in the 70th year of her religious profession in the Adrian Dominican Congregation.
Sister Jodie was born in Painesville, Ohio, to E. Russell and Valerie (Murphy) Screes. She graduated from John Adams High School, South Bend, Indiana, and received a bachelor’s degree in English from Siena Heights College (University) in Adrian; a master’s degree in English from the University of Detroit (University of Detroit Mercy); a master’s degree in theology from Manhattan College in The Bronx, New York; and a master’s degree in transpersonal studies from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto, California.
Sister served for more than 27 years in education and various other ministries in Farmington, Royal Oak, Inkster, Detroit, Lansing, Warren, and Brighton, Michigan; Mishawaka and Notre Dame, Indiana; Bronxville, New York; Washington, D.C.; and Morristown, New Jersey. In addition, she spent more than 14 years ministering in institutions of the Adrian Dominican Sisters in Adrian, including Weber Center, Siena Heights University, and the Formation Office.
Sister Jodie became a resident of the Dominican Life Center in 2000. She was preceded in death by her parents and her brother William. She is survived by other loving family members and her Adrian Dominican Sisters.
Visitation will be held from 6:30 to 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, July 2, 2024, in the gathering space of St. Catherine Chapel. The Vigil Prayer will be held at 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, July 2, 2024, in St. Catherine Chapel. A Funeral Mass will be offered in St. Catherine Chapel at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 3, 2024. Prayers of Committal will be held in the Congregation Cemetery.
Those not attending services in person are welcome to participate via live stream.
Memorial gifts may be made to Adrian Dominican Sisters, 1257 East Siena Heights Drive, Adrian, MI, 49221. Funeral arrangements are being handled by Anderson-Marry Funeral Home, Adrian.
Sister's Memorial Card (PDF)
Enjoy these videos with Sister Jodie
Recording of Sister Jodie's Vigil Service - After clicking the link, download the recording by right-clicking on the video choosing "Save video as." Worship Aid (PDF)
Recording of Sister Jodie's Funeral Mass - After clicking the link, download the recording by right-clicking on the video choosing "Save video as." Worship Aid (PDF)
Photo Left: Joanne at the age of 5, 1937. Photo Middle Left: First Communion, 1939. Photo Middle Right: 1949 graduate of John Adams High School, South Bend, Indiana. Photo Right: Sister Joanne as a postulant, teaching at Our Lady of Sorrows School in Farmington Hills, Michigan, 1952
Photo Left: From left, Joanne, her mother Valerie Screes, and her brother Bill Screes. Photo Middle: Sister Joanne poses at Weber Retreat and Conference Center, which she directed from 1987 to 1994. Photo Right: The Screes family: from left, brother Bill, parents Valerie and E. Russel, and Joanne.
Photo Left: Formation Directors include, back row, from left, Sisters Margaret Lane, Joanne Screes, and Shirley Cushing and, front row, from left, Sisters Rosemary Ferguson and Ruth Steiner. Photo Right: Enjoying some quiet time together are, from left, Sisters Ban Saeed, Mary Soher, Joanne Screes, Norma Dell, and Mary Alice Naour.
Photo Left: From left, Sisters Tarianne DeYonker and Joanne Screes. Photo Right: Enjoying an 80th birthday celebration in 2012, are, from left, Sisters Helen Sohn, Joanne Screes, and Patricia Johnson.
Members of the 2013 Diamond Jubilee Crowd are, back row, from left, Sisters Attracta Kelly (Prioress), Joan Zinn, Renee Richie, Mary Bernard Lynch, and Joanne Screes; and front row, from left, Sisters Mary Tindel, Helen Sohn, Bernadette Therese Vozobule, Patricia Johnson, and Mary I. Assenmacher.
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(1935-2024)
Sister Beth Ellen Butler, formerly known as Sister Margaret Vincent, died on Wednesday, June 19, 2024, at the Dominican Life Center in Adrian, Michigan. She was 89 years of age and in the 69th year of her religious profession in the Adrian Dominican Congregation.
Sister Beth Ellen was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Vincent and Margaret (Cowhy) Butler. She graduated from Mackenzie High School in Detroit and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Barry College (University) in Miami Shores, Florida, and a Master of Science degree in Criminal Justice from Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan.
Sister Beth Ellen spent 19 years ministering in elementary education in Chicago, Illinois; Adrian; Jackson, Michigan; Oxon Hill, Maryland; and Miami Beach, Fort Walton Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville and Tallahassee, all in Florida. This includes two years at St. Joseph Academy in Adrian, a sponsored institution of the Congregation, and one year at Rosarian Academy in West Palm Beach, a legacy institution of the Congregation. She also ministered for one year as religious education director at St. Columba Parish in Oxon Hill. She later taught and served 13 years as a department chairperson at the college level: five years at Siena Heights College (University) in Adrian and eight years at Barry University, both sponsored institutions of the Congregation.
Sister Beth Ellen also ministered 12 years at Dominican Santa Cruz Hospital, Santa Cruz, California, a legacy institution of the Congregation, as the supervisor of public safety, followed by two years as the supervisor of environment of care and 11 years in patient and staff satisfaction. Sister became a resident of the Dominican Life Center in 2023.
Sister Beth Ellen was preceded in death by her parents, brothers Robert and Michael, and a sister, Donelda Steele. She is survived by a brother, Terrance Butler (Judy), other loving family members, and her Adrian Dominican Sisters.
Visitation will be from 6:30-7:00 pm on Tuesday, June 25, 2024, in the Gathering Space of St. Catherine Chapel. The Vigil Prayer will be at 7:00 pm Tuesday, June 25, 2024, in St. Catherine Chapel. A Funeral Mass will be offered in St. Catherine Chapel at 10:30 am Wednesday, June 26, 2024. Prayers of Committal will be held in the Congregation Cemetery.
Enjoy this inspiring interview with Sister Beth Ellen
Recording of Sister Beth's Vigil Service - After clicking the link, download the recording by right-clicking on the video choosing "Save video as." Worship Aid (PDF)
Recording of Sister Beth's Funeral Mass - After clicking the link, download the recording by right-clicking on the video choosing "Save video as." Worship Aid (PDF)
Photo Left: Sister Beth Ellen's First Communion. Photo Middle Left: Sister Beth Ellen Butler, Police Chaplain in Miami, Florida, 1993.
Photo Left: Sister Beth Ellen Butler works with her sixth-grade students at Queen of the Miraculous Medal in Jackson, Michigan, 1976. Photo Right: The Butler siblings at their mother's funeral are, standing from left, Michael, Sister Beth, Terry, and Donelda and, seated in front, Robert.
Photo Left: Sister Beth Ellen counsels a prisoner at Jackson Prison in Jackson, Michigan. Photo Middle: Officer Mary Lou Woods, left, police partner, with Sister Beth Ellen Woods, 1990. Photo Right: Members of the Barry University community, 1993, are, from left, Sisters Dolores Daehn, Margaret Mary McGill, Beth Ellen Butler (standing), Diane Odette, Elizabeth M. McFadyen, and Yolanda Pomante.
Members of the 2014 Diamond Jubilee August Crowd are: back row, from left, Sisters Ana Feliz, Susan Mary Parker, Joyce Hibbert, and Patricia McCarty; middle row, from left, Sisters Diane Weifenbach, Barbara Gentry, Dorita Wotiska, Mary Trzasko, Dorothy Dempsey, Beth Ellen Butler, and Phyllis Kreiner; and front row, from left, Sisters Jeanine Boivin, Anele Heiges, Yolanda Pomante, and Ruth Anne Kelly. Not pictured are Sisters Louise Borgacz and Alice Marie Schmid.
(1945-2024)
Our faith assures us that God is anxiously awaiting each of us, just as he awaited Dianne, as with outstretched arms she walked into God’s Holy Presence forever on May 29. As we heard … in the reading from Isaiah , she walked into the arms of the Holy One who had held her in the palm of his hand, even before she was born. God was always there. Holy Mystery had her back, in a way we don’t even pretend to understand, yet believe.
This paragraph was part of the funeral homily preached by Sister Susan Van Baalen for Sister Dianne Koszycki, echoing the image of a hand cradling a human figure that was used on the cover of the worship aid for the funeral.
Dianne Marie Koszycki was born on April 4, 1945, in Toledo, Ohio, to Francis and Helen (Wozniak) Koszycki. She was the youngest of the couple’s two children, coming into the family six years after her brother, Robert.
While she did not have a sister with whom to make childhood memories, she and her cousin Judy were especially close to each other. They were almost the same age, and although they lived in different states they spent almost every summer and many holidays together. “Needless to say, in our own way we created a lot of ‘good trouble’ for those charged with our care each summer,” Sister Dianne said in her life story.
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Memorial gifts may be made to Adrian Dominican Sisters, 1257 East Siena Heights Drive, Adrian, MI, 49221.
Recording of Sister Dianne's Vigil Service - After clicking the link, download the recording by right-clicking on the video choosing "Save video as." Worship Aid (PDF)
Recording of Sister Dianne's Funeral Mass - After clicking the link, download the recording by right-clicking on the video choosing "Save video as." Worship Aid (PDF)
Cora Marie Campbell was four years old when she met her first Adrian Dominican Sisters: the group teaching catechism at St. Gregory Parish in Newberry, Michigan. Incidentally, Newberry, which in the year of Cora Marie’s birth,1935, had only some 2,500 residents, give or take, produced three members of the Congregation: Sisters Nadine Foley, Paul James Villemure, and of course Cora Marie.
Baptized Genevieve Anne after her mother and grandmother, Cora Marie was born in Newberry, located in the eastern half of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, to William and Genevieve (MacDonald) Campbell on November 1, 1935 – her father’s birthday. William, who worked as a firefighter, was a Newberry native, while Genevieve was born in Grand Marais, Michigan, on the Lake Superior side of the U.P.
The couple had fourteen children in all, five of whom were born after Genevieve entered the Congregation. First came William, then Genevieve, then her sister Cara, then ten boys in a row – Peter, Kay Michael, Alexander, James, Thomas, Matthew, John, Paul, Mark, and Charles – and finally Mary. Kay Michael died of pneumonia when he was only about three and a half years old.
All of the children had their own assigned household chores, but it also fell to Genevieve and Cara to take care of their younger siblings. The two girls took turns being “assigned” a brother as each boy was born, and Genevieve also tutored her brothers in math, the subject which would later be her teaching specialty.
Read more about Sister Cora (PDF)
Enjoy this video exploring the life and ministry of Sister Cora Marie.
Recording of Sister Cora Marie's Vigil Service - After clicking the link, download the recording by right-clicking on the video choosing "Save video as." Worship Aid (PDF)
Recording of Sister Cora Marie's Funeral Mass - After clicking the link, download the recording by right-clicking on the video choosing "Save video as." Worship Aid (PDF)
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