Sister Antoinette Damato, O.P., a Sister of St. Dominic, Amityville, L.I., for 70 years, died April 5. She was 88.

Born in Brooklyn, she was a parishioner at St. Nicholas Church, Williamsburg, where she met the Dominican Sisters. In 1945, she was accepted as a candidate to the congregation and later that year received the Dominican habit and the name Sister Mary Conrad. She pronounced her religious vows one year later.

She taught elementary grades at St. Barbara’s, Bushwick, 1946-55; St. Agnes Academic H.S., College Point, 1955-66; and St. John the Baptist H.S., West Islip, L.I., 1966-67. She was then elected as councilor to the Executive Board of the Sisters, a position she held until 1973.

She assumed responsibility for the spiritual life development of the congregation and was liaison to the many formation groups – affiliates, postulants, novices and sisters in temporary commitment.

In 1971, she moved to Incarnation Convent, Queens Village, and, when her term of office ended in 1973, she taught religious education at St. Thomas the Apostle, Woodhaven. From 1975 to 1981, she was director of religious education at St. Hugh of Lincoln, Huntington Station, L.I.

When she returned to secondary education in 1981 at Queen of the Rosary Academy, Amityville, she resided at John XIII Hall. From 1985 to 1998 she ministered in pastoral/ support services at the motherhouse in Amityville and lived at Our Lady of Lourdes Convent, Massapequa Park, L.I. In 2004, she returned to Amityville, first residing in St. Albert Hall and then in Carlin Hall.

Burial was in the Sisters’ cemetery in Amityville.