Sister Mildred Schubert, S.C. (Sister Robert Thomas), a Sister of Charity- Halifax for 61 years, died at Elizabeth Seton Residence, Wellesley, Massachusetts, on Aug. 28, at age 80.
Mildred Ann Schubert, the daughter of Mildred Letitia (Decker) and Thomas Harold Schubert, was born on March 7, 1944, in Queens, an identical twin to Marjorie. Sister Mildred entered the congregation from Saints Philip and James Parish, Long Island, and Mount St. Vincent, Halifax, Nova Scotia, as a postulant on Sept. 12, 1962, a year after Marjorie.
Sister Mildred was received into the novitiate in 1963, taking her religious name, Sister Robert Thomas, and pronounced her first vows at the Mount in 1965.
Sister Mildred made her perpetual profession of vows in 1970 at St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church, Jamaica. Sister Mildred graduated with a B.A. degree (magna cum laude) with distinction in English, a B.S. in Education from Mount St. Vincent University, a M.S. in education from Queens College, Flushing, and a Ph.D. in psychology from Fordham University.
In 1967, she began her career as a teacher at St. Nicholas of Tolentine School, and from 1975-2000, she was a school psychologist at St. Nicholas of Tolentine School and St. Francis Prep High School.
In 2000, she began her private practice in Little Neck and served as executive director of consultation services for religious personnel at the Diocese of Rockville Centre.
Her life was a life of compassionate service. She was a tried and true New Yorker with a New Yorker’s exuberant zest for life. She loved books, music, the arts, and the New York Mets. In her later years, illness forced Sister Mildred to leave her beloved New York for Elizabeth Seton Residence in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Sister Mildred is missed by her sisters in community and her loyal band members but mostly by her beloved twin, Margie, whose eulogy tearfully trumpeted the beauty, dignity, and love of the life of Sister Mildred. She is survived by her sisters, Marjorie (Kearney) and Alice (Haydamack), her brother Thomas, and her nieces and nephews.
Sister Mildred Schubert was laid to rest in St. Mary Cemetery, Needham, Massachusetts, on Sept. 4 after the Mass of Christian Burial at Marillac Residence on the Mount Saint Vincent Campus.