Passing through Elm Grove on Watertown Plank Road, you can t miss the dramatic Notre Dame Hall designed by architect Eugene Liebert in 1898 for the School Sisters of Notre Dame, 13105 W. Watertown Plank Rd. We went inside for a look around before it is converted to apartments.
Helped modernize, diversify university, was ninth member of her order to die of COVID-19. By Michael Horne - Jan 13th, 2021 01:24 pm //end headline wrapper ?>Ellen Lorenz. Photo courtesy of Mount Mary University.
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Ellen Lorenz was a teacher who rose to become the sixth president of Mount Mary University from 1979-1987. Yet she longed to return to her original vocation.
“After that visible role, Sister Ellen returned to the education department, spending another 25 years working with prospective teachers. Retiring from the education department in 2013, she became a part-time tutor in the Student Success Center until mid-2015,” according to the university’s announcement of her death at 85 on December 22nd, 2020 at the School Sisters of Notre Dame convent in Elm Grove. “Sister Ellen was COVID positive and had underlying health conditions,” said
CNA Staff, Dec 19, 2020 / 04:01 am (CNA).- Eight elderly religious sisters died of COVID-19 complications in one week at a retirement home for the School Sisters of Notre Dame near Milwaukee.
“Even though they’re older and most of the sisters that did go to God are in their late 80s, 90s … we didn’t expect them to go so, so quickly,” Sister Debra Marie Sciano, the provincial leader for School Sisters of Notre Dame Central Pacific Province, told the Associated Press. “So it was just very difficult for us.”
“We believe that each of these sisters, and and all the sisters, really, they’ve made a difference in this world,” Sciano said. “I just think it’s important that people know that, and that they were committed up until the end of their lives.”