Sister Mary Kenneth McGuire, R.S.M., dies at 93 March 14, 2022By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries A funeral Mass for Mercy Sister Mary Kenneth McGuire was offered March 9 at Shrine of the Sacred Heart in Mount Washington. Sister Kenneth died March 3 at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore. She was 93 and had been a Sister of Mercy for 69 years. Born and raised in Baltimore, Sister Kenneth attended St. Ann’s Elementary school on Greenmount Avenue, where she was taught by the School Sisters of Notre Dame. With help from a scholarship, she attended Mount St. Agnes High School in Baltimore, where she first met the Sisters of Mercy. She went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in history and education at Mount St. Agnes College. She entered the Sisters of Mercy at Mount Washington in 1952. Sister Kenneth taught in Baltimore at Mount Washington Country School for Boys, Mount St. Agnes Lower School and St. Peter’s Business School. A few years later, according to an obituary provided by her religious community, Sister Kenneth was called from the classroom into a new ministry in administration at her alma mater, Mount St. Agnes College. She held several positions there including registrar, director of admissions, director of student activities, assistant dean of students and coordinator of Atkinson Hall. In 1974 she left the college and moved to The Villa, then the Mercy retirement home in Baltimore, to serve as administrator. She then served at St. Peter the Apostle Church, where she held administrative and managerial positions for almost a decade before becoming pastoral associate. In 2004 Sister Kenneth joined her close friend Mercy Sister Judith Schmelz in Georgetown, Guyana, where she lived and ministered wherever she was needed for another decade before retiring in 2015. In retirement she would remember those “missionary” years as her happiest time as a Sister of Mercy, according to the Sisters of Mercy. More obituaries Sister Peggy Mathewson, nursing supervisor for Sisters of Bon Secours, dies at age 82 Sister Margaret McCabe, mental health advocate, dies at 80 Sister Anne Marie Mack, past president of the Sisters of Bon Secours USA, dies at 76 Father Byron, former economics professor at Loyola University Maryland, recalled as ‘visionary leader’ Christian Brother J. Paul Joslin, former Calvert Hall teacher, dies at 77 Carmelite Sister Mary Eileen McNamara dies at 104 Copyright © 2022 Catholic Review Media Print
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