Sister Patricia Marie Hartley, OSF, educator, hospital public relations manager and pastoral care assistant, died March 3, 2023. Born Carol Hartley on Dec. 18, 1936, Sister Patricia Marie was the third child on Zita and Carl Hartley. Carol spent her childhood in Tonawanda and attended St. Francis of Assis School graduating in 1950. She went […]
Sister Carleen Marie Stengel, OSF, a lifelong teacher and Franciscan Sister of the Neumann Communities embraced death in the early hours of Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022. She was 83 years old and had been a Sister of St. Francis for almost 65 years. Born Anna Stengel June 30, 1938, in Buffalo, the youngest and only […]
While celebrating her 50-year jubilee as a sister of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities, Sister Conchetta LoPriesti said, “People may be used to communicating through speaking. I do it with pictures in the air.” From her childhood days of translating Italian for her father to her current work in deaf ministry, Sister Conchetta continues […]
