Sister Maureen Fay, president emerita of the University of Detroit Mercy, died May 27, 2021. She served as president of UDM for 14 years, from its inception in 1990 to her retirement.
February 03, 2021
CWN Editor s Note: 47 sisters and 60 workers at the Dominican Life Center in Adrian, Michigan, have tested positive for Covid. “The impact of so many sisters dying of Covid in such a short period of time is numbing for us, especially since we kept the virus at bay for over nine months,” said Sister Patricia Siemen of the Adrian Dominican Sisters.
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The 130-acre, red-brick campus of the Adrian Dominican Sisters remained COVID-free through most of 2020. But in the end, the coronavirus that arrived Christmas week would kill with swift efficiency.
In all, nine sisters among them, local teachers and educators have died so far in January after contracting COVID-19 at the Adrian facility, where more than 200 sisters reside and the average age is 83. Six succumbed within a three-day period. As leaders planned more funerals, another 13 Dominican sisters were in quarantine Friday.
Sister Patricia Siemen, prioress (or head) of the Adrian order, said she began to dread the ringing of her phone as one death followed another.
The deaths add to what is becoming a familiar trend in the spread of the virus as it devastates religious congregate communities by infecting retired, aging populations of nuns and sisters.
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