Francisan Sister Marie Therese Carr dies at 88 January 9, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries An 11 a.m. funeral Mass for Franciscan Sister Marie Therese Carr will be offered Jan. 13 at Assisi House in Aston, Pa. Sister Marie Therese died Jan. 8. She was 88 had been a professed member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia for 67 years. Sister Marie Therese was born Mary Florberta Carr in Philadelphia. She entered religious life in 1955 and professed her first vows in 1958. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English from what is now Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg and a master’s degree in English from St. Michael’s College in Vermont. Sister Marie Therese ministered for 25 years in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. She taught at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Elementary School in Essex; St. Lawrence School, Baltimore; St. Stephen School, Bradshaw; Immaculate Conception School, Towson; St. Joseph School, Fullerton; The Catholic High School of Baltimore; and Our Lady of Mount Carmel High School in Essex. Elsewhere, she served in Delaware and Pennsylvania. More obituaries Mary Pat Stoval, longtime archdiocesan fiscal services director, dies at 67 Sister Mary Laurentilla Back, S.S.N.D., dies at 93 Sister Maria Soledad Gutierrez dies at 101 Delores ‘Dee’ Silverman, co-founder of Pregnancy Center North, dies at 85 Sister Marie Olwell dies at 96 Sister Eileen Davis, D.C., dies at 99 Copyright © 2025 Catholic Review Media Print
