2/2/2021
Local businesses remember Sister Gertrude, longtime ‘begging sister’
Sister Gertrude Crevan, a former “begging sister” with the Little Sisters of the Poor in Pawtucket, died Dec. 19 at the age of 84.
PAWTUCKET – A familiar face to many in the Pawtucket business community died last month.
Sister Gertrude Crevan, 84, a Little Sister of the Poor, died at the order’s residence in Totowa, New Jersey, on Dec. 19. She was buried in Calvary Cemetery alongside her fellow sisters.
Though she lived the last seven years of her life in New Jersey, she resided for more than three decades at the Jeanne Jugan Residence on Main Street, where she fulfilled the role of “begging sister.” Her persistence and dedication to the home’s mission to serve the elderly poor were remembered this month by many who once found themselves on the receiving end of her appeals.