Mary Johnellen Garrity, BVM

Mary Johnellen Garrity, BVM died Monday, Jan. 8, 2018, at Caritas Center in Dubuque, Iowa. Visitation will be from 9–10:15 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 12, 2018, 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 Chicago on Jan. 11, 1927, to John Joseph and Mary Ellen Lonergan Garrity. She entered the BVM congregation Sept. 8, 1945, from St. Andrew Parish, Chicago. She professed first vows on March 19, 1948, and final vows on Aug. 15, 1953.

Sister Mary Johnellen taught elementary school in Chicago and Hempstead and Bellerose, N.Y. She taught secondary school in Dubuque, Iowa; Chicago; and Wichita, Kan.

She was preceded in death by her parents; brothers: John, Lawrence, James and Donald; and sisters Annamae Walton and Dorothy Sperath. She is survived by a sister, Irene Schultz, Wheeling, Ill.; nieces; nephews and the Sisters of Charity, BVM, with whom she shared life for 72 years.

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