Sister Margaret Karam, OP

March 29, 2018
 
Sister Margaret Karam, formerly known as Sister Raymond Joseph Karam, died on March 9 at the Dominican Life Center in Adrian, Michigan. She was 93 years of age and in the 69th year of her religious profession in the Adrian Dominican Congregation.
 
Born in Arizona, Sister Margaret held a graduate degree in history from the University of San Francisco.
 
Sister Margaret spent 23 years ministering in elementary and secondary education in Detroit; Oakland and Oceanside, California; Henderson, Nevada; and Bisbee and Phoenix, Arizona. She was social worker for four years at the Navajo Alcohol-Drug Center in Winslow, Arizona; and coordinator of family planning for two years for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Sister Margaret became a resident of the Dominican Life Center in Adrian in 2017.
 
Survivors include her sister, Virginia Frankum of Del Mar, California.
 
A funeral Mass was celebrated in the sisters’ St. Catherine Chapel on March 14 with interment in the congregation cemetery.
 
Memorial gifts may be made to Adrian Dominican Sisters, 1257 East Siena Heights Drive, Adrian, MI 49221.