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Mercy Sister Mary Kenneth McGuire died March 3. (Courtesy photo)

Sister Mary Kenneth McGuire, R.S.M., dies at 93

March 14, 2022
By 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. 

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