Sister Rose Sylvia Lindner, S.S.N.D., dies at 91

A funeral Mass for School Sister of Notre Dame Rose Sylvia Lindner was offered July 2 at Villa Assumpta in Baltimore. Sister Rose Sylvia died June 18. She was 91.

Raised in Virginia, Audrey Sylvia entered the Daughters of Charity in Emmitsburg in 1953. When she became a novice, she received her religious name, Rose. That was followed by first profession of vows on July 29, 1954. She served in a variety of ministries from 1955 to 1986, including teaching, prison ministry, parish outreach and evangelization.

In 1986, Sister Rose began the process to transfer from the Daughters of Charity to the School Sisters of Notre Dame. She professed final vows as a School Sister on March 24, 1990, in Baltimore.

Sister Rose ministered at St. Bernadette in Severn and St. Joseph in Cockeysville, where she served for 20 years. From 2013 until 2018, Sister Rose served as a volunteer, including at Mother Seton Academy in Baltimore, and held a ministry of prayer and presence in her local community on Roland Avenue in Baltimore. She moved to Villa Assumpta in 2018.

Outside the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Sister Rose also served in Washington, D.C. She held a bachelor’s degree in English with a minor in elementary education from St. Joseph College in Emmitsburg and a master’s degree in teaching with a major in guidance and a minor in counseling from what is now Trinity University.

Sister Rose was a participant in the Rush Religious Orders Study, which involved the donation of brain and other tissue after her death, for use in research on Alzheimer’s disease.

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