Sister Patricia Marie Walsh, OP

Sept. 23, 2019
 
Sister Patricia Marie Walsh, OP, died at St. Martin residence in Fremont on Sept. 16. Born in Los Angeles on July 14, 1930, she was 89 years old and in the 71st year of her religious profession at the time of her death.
 
Sister Walsh met the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose at the School of the Madeleine in Berkeley. She entered the congregation in 1946 and made first profession of vows as a Dominican sister on June 24, 1948. For 32 years she served as a teacher or administrator at Catholic schools in California, including locally, the School of the Madeleine in Berkeley; St. Elizabeth Elementary School in Oakland; and St. Anthony School in San Francisco.
 
Sister Walsh also ministered as a hospital chaplain in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Tucson, Ariz., and was a founding member of the Tucson Interfaith HIV/AIDS Network.
 
Following her funeral Mass, she was buried on Sept. 20 at the congregation’s cemetery, God’s Acre, at the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose Motherhouse.