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| Sister Mary Rosalie in her room at Taylor Manor. |
After completing her Novitiate, Sister Mary Rosalie became a teacher and spent many years teaching in various school, primarily teaching the elementary grades. She also worked as a sacristan and directed the laundry at St. Thomas Orphanage in Anchorage, Ky and Georgetown Hospital in Washington, D.C.
Sister had a talent for arts and craft, particularly embroidery. She as able to take a small picture the size of a postage stamp and enlarge it using graph paper to make her own embroidery pattern. She had a natural gift for picking colors and stitches that enhanced her craft work. Her embroidered pictures were her own creation and they were works of art. Because of her skill with embroidery and her interest in crafts, she was assigned to teach craft classes in the early 1970's.
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| One of Sister's embroidery projects. |
When the Sisters of St. Joseph the Worker reopened Saint Joseph Academy, Sister Mary Rosalie came out of retirement to teach full time. When she retired from teaching in the early 1980's, she worked as a teachers aide and adviser for the full time teachers.
When her health began to fail she moved to Taylor Manor Nursing home and was assigned as sacristan. Father Brinker, the chaplain at the nursing home, loved to say that he always knew where Sister Mary Rosalie stood on any issue because she always spoke her mind. During her later years she continued designing and embroidering her own creations. She loved her life as a religious. When she wasn't in her room working on her craft work, you would find her in chapel interceding before God for the community and for those needing her prayers. She died at Taylor Manor in 1993.
