Sister Miriam Patrick O’Donnell, S.S.N.D., who taught school for nearly five decades, including 30 years at one Brooklyn high school, died Jan. 15 at Lourdes Health Care Center in Wilton, Conn.
She was 83 and had been a professed member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame for 62 years.
Born as Eleanor J. O’Donnell, she was born in Medford, Mass.
In the Diocese of Brooklyn, she taught at St. Anthony of Padua, South Ozone Park, 1954-60; St. Anselm, Bay Ridge, 1960-63; and St. Saviour H.S., Park Slope, 1970-2000.
Though she retired from teaching in 2000, she continued working in education and community service by tutoring students at Marymount College and volunteering at St. Joseph parish, Yorkville, both in Manhattan, until 2005 when she moved to Villa Notre Dame, an S.S.N.D. retirement residence in Wilton, Conn.
A Mass of Christian Burial was held Saturday, Jan. 19, in the Chapel at Villa Notre Dame. Burial followed at St. Mary Cemetery in Bethel, Conn.
Sister Miriam Patrick is survived by a sister, Charlotte Reilly of Waltham, Mass.
Her sister, Catherine Marie O’Donnell, also an S.S.N.D., died at Lourdes Health Care Center in November, 2012.