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Dec. 13, 2019
Catholic San Francisco
Holy Names Sister Sylvia Bartheld, (Sister M. Catherine Elizabeth), died Nov. 13. She was 87 years old and a Sister of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary for 68 years.
Sister Sylvia was both an educator and an educator of educators. For the first 17 years of her ministry she was in elementary education in Los Angeles, Santa Monica and San Francisco, her last assignment as principal of St. Cecilia School.
She then served the Archdiocese of San Francisco as elementary school consultant and assistant superintendent of schools for 16 years. She was an education consultant for the Department of Education for the Diocese of San Jose and at her community’s Holy Names University in Oakland did institutional research where her gifts of gathering and analyzing data were well utilized.
“Sister Sylvia loved San Francisco, the city of her birth,” the sisters said in a statement. “She loved the arts, especially the ballet and opera where she often ushered so she would be sure to be able to attend her favorite performances.”
Survivors include a nephew, Roy Rios, and his wife Sharon.
A funeral Mass was celebrated Nov. 26, at the sisters’ Holy Spirit Chapel in Campbell with interment at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Hayward.
Remembrances may be made to the Sisters of the Holy Names, P.O. Box 907, Los Gatos, CA 95031.