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May 10, 2018
Presentation Sister Kathleen Healy (religious name Sister Mary Daniel) died April 21 at the Presentation Motherhouse in San Francisco. She was 92 years old.
Sister Kathleen is a former principal of San Francisco’s St. Agnes and St. Teresa schools and served as a pastoral associate at St. Teresa Parish for almost 25 years. She is a founding member of The Lantern, a literacy and hospitality center for immigrants in San Francisco, and served at St. Anthony Foundation providing social services in the dining room and visiting the poor in residential hotels in the Tenderloin. Three of Sister Kathleen’s sisters, all now deceased, were also Presentation sisters: Sister Nancy Healy, PBVM, Sister Doreen Healy, PBVM and Sister Maryann Healy, PBVM. A sister Honora Lowe is also deceased. Sister Kathleen held a doctorate in ministry from the Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley.
“This was a loving Irish family who surrounded and nurtured her with their Catholic faith and love for justice which supported her as a Sister of the Presentation for 75 years,” the community said in a statement.
A funeral Mass was celebrated at St. Teresa Church, May 5 with interment at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma.
Remembrances may be made to the Sisters of the Presentation, Development Office, 281 Masonic Ave., San Francisco 94118.