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.
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