Sister Maria Soledad Gutierrez dies at 101 August 4, 2026By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries A funeral Mass for Sister Maria Soledad Gutierrez of the Oblate Sisters of Providence will be offered Aug. 8 at 11 a.m. at her religious community’s motherhouse in Arbutus. Sister Maria died July 18. She was 101. A native of Puerto Rico, Sister Maria entered religious life in 1960 and professed her first vows in 1963. In the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Sister Maria served as a dietitian and prefect at St. Frances Academy in Baltimore from 1964 to 1967 and then as a dietitian at Our Lady of Mount Providence Convent from 1967 to 1976. She was a Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (CCD) teacher at the motherhouse from 1978 to 1980 and a teacher’s aide at St. Katharine of Siena School in Baltimore from 2002 to 2006. From 2006 to 2020, she was a receptionist at Mount Providence Child Development Center in Arbutus and was also the switchboard operator at the motherhouse from 2015 to 2021. read more obituaries Deacon Wayne Matthews, longtime church leader and scientist, dies at 81 Betty Contino, a giant in empowering Baltimore’s Catholic school students, dies at 81 Sister Marian Joseph Baird, R.S.M., dies at 87 Mary Pat Stoval, longtime archdiocesan fiscal services director, dies at 67 Sister Mary Laurentilla Back, S.S.N.D., dies at 93 Delores ‘Dee’ Silverman, co-founder of Pregnancy Center North, dies at 85 Copyright © 2026 Catholic Review Media Print
