Obituary: Sister Cecilia Rose Boucher, FSM

Submitted on March 19, 2009

Send to friendA funeral Mass was celebrated March 16 for Sister Cecilia Rose Boucher, a Franciscan Sister of Mary, at St. Mary of the Angels Convent in Richmond Heights. Sister Cecilia Rose died March 11 at St. Mary of the Angels Convent. She was 80 years old and had been a religious for almost 60 years. A native of Alton, Ill., she entered the Sisters of St. Mary on Aug. 3, 1949, and professed her final vows on Feb. 11, 1952. The Sisters of St. Mary reunited in 1987 with the Sisters of St. Francis of Maryville, Mo., becoming the Franciscan Sisters of Mary. Upon entering religious life, Sister Cecilia Rose received the religious name Sister Mary Clarence, but following the Second Vatican Council assumed her baptismal name. For many years she cared for the sisters’ laundry and linens, both at St. Mary of the Angels Convent in Richmond Heights and at St. Mary’s Hospital in Madison, Wis. She also served as sacristan and visited hospital patients. At the motherhouse in Richmond Heights, she made and repaired rosaries and helped in the activities department. In her later years she devoted her time to a ministry of prayer. Survivors include a brother, Clarence, and two sisters, Anna Droste and Bernice Sumowski. Burial was in Resurrection Cemetery.