Dolores O’Dwyer, BVM (Wilmetta)
Dolores O’Dwyer, BVM (Wilmetta) died Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017, at Caritas Center in Dubuque, Iowa. Visitation will be from 9–10:15 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017, in the Marian Hall Chapel, followed by a Sharing of Memories at 10:15 a.m. Funeral liturgy will immediately follow. Burial is in the Mount Carmel cemetery.
She was born in San Francisco on Aug. 28, 1923, to William and Margaret Meaney O’Dwyer. She entered the BVM congregation Sept. 8, 1941, from St. Paul Parish, San Francisco. She professed first vows on March 19, 1944, and final vows on Aug. 15, 1949.
Sister Dolores taught elementary school in Berwyn, Ill.; Seattle; Portland, Ore.; and Glendale and Los Angeles, Calif., where she was also principal and later served as school volunteer.
She was preceded in death by her parents, brother Rev. William O’Dwyer, and sister Mary Catherine O’Dwyer, BVM (Paul Anthony). She is survived by cousins and the Sisters of Charity, BVM, with whom she shared life for 76 years.
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Sorry to hear of the loss of Sister Dolores, my mother and her were first cousins. My grandma and her mother were sisters who immigrated from Ireland. Many times sister Dolores and Sister Catherine and their brother would stay with my grandma here in New York when they came to visit. God rest her soul