Sr. Ann Dominic Tassone; math teacher and Avila fan
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Send to friendA memorial Mass was celebrated July 2 at Nazareth Chapel at Nazareth Living Center in South County for Sister Ann Dominic Tassone, a longtime math teacher.
Sister Ann Dominic died June 29 at Nazareth of congestive heart failure at age 88.
Born in Ishpeming, Mich., and named Rose Marie, she entered the Sisters of St. Joseph in 1940 in St. Louis and made her final profession in 1946. She received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Fontbonne College in 1949 and a master’s degree in mathematics from University of Notre Dame in Indiana in 1955.
Right after the novitiate Sister Ann Dominic taught junior high students at Sts. Mary and Joseph School in St. Louis, then began 10 years of teaching primary grades, briefly at Notre Dame School in Wellston, then at St. Anthony School in South St. Louis. She taught math, science and religion at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Florissant from 1954-59 and taught at Rosati-Kain High School in St. Louis, 1961-63. In June of 1963 she moved to Kansas City, Mo., and began teaching at Avila College.
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