Oblate Sister Trinita Baeza, teacher and pastoral associate in Baltimore, dies at 98

A funeral Mass will be offered June 17 for Oblate Sister of Providence Trinita Baeza, who served her order for 81 years. The graduate of St. Frances Academy in Baltimore died June 7. She was 98.

Born in Cuba July 4, 1926, Sister Trinita entered the Oblate Sisters of Providence shortly after her graduation from St. Frances in 1944.

Sister Trinita taught in Baltimore at St. Pius V School (1949-51) and St. Frances Academy (2015-21). She served as pastoral associate at St. Gregory the Great (1991-98 and 2004-06) and St. Francis Xavier (1998-2001) parishes in Baltimore.

Elsewhere, she served as a principal or teacher in Washington, D.C., New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Illinois and North Carolina. She also taught in Costa Rica.

She received her bachelor’s degree from Webster College in St. Louis and her master’s degree from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

A liturgy for Sister Trinita will be held June 17 at Our Lady of Mount Providence Convent, 701 Gun Road in Arbutus, starting at 10 a.m. 

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