Sister Mary Lorraine Struthers, C.I.J., a member of the Congregation of the Infant Jesus, Nursing Sisters of the Sick Poor, for 68 years, died Oct. 22.
She attended St. Francis of Assisi School, Crown Heights, and Catherine McAuley H.S., East Flatbush.
She entered the congregation from her home parish of St. Francis of Assisi in 1950.
She trained to become a registered nurse at St. Mary’s Hospital, Brooklyn, and earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Downstate University Hospital. She earned her master’s in theology and a certificate in pastoral care from Immaculate Conception Seminary, Huntington, L.I.
Her ministries included home care with the Nursing Sisters Home Visiting Service; serving as the school nurse at The Mary Louis Academy, Jamaica Estates; in the Bahama Mission of her congregation; as pastoral care director at Good Shepherd, Marine Park, and in parish outreach at St. Martha’s parish, Uniondale, L.I.
In 1998, she was inducted into the Catherine McAuley H.S. Hall of Fame for exemplifying Catherine McAuley’s vision of service and mercy to the poor, the sick and ignorant.
A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at Villa St. Joseph, Rockville Centre, Oct. 25. Burial was in Holy Cross Cemetery, Flatbush.
She was very special woman