Sister Mary Thecla Malawey, SCC

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Sr. Malawey

A funeral Mass was celebrated Aug. 9 at Sacred Heart Convent in Wilmette, Ill., for Sister of Christian Charity Mary Thecla Malawey, a teacher, librarian and sacristan at Resurrection of Our Lord Parish in South St. Louis from 1960-66.

Sister Mary Thecla, 79, died Aug. 6 at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, Ill.

Born Mildred Malawey in St. Louis, she entered the Sisters of Christian Charity in 1946 and was received into the novitiate in 1948, receiving the name Sister Mary Thecla. She made her first vows in 1950 and pronounced her final vows in 1956. She received a master's degree in elementary education and library science from Rosary College in River Forest, Ill., in 1971.

Sister Mary Thecla ministered as a librarian and teacher, including as an instructor of deaf students, in Michigan, Arkansas and Illinois. She taught grades five and six and was school librarian at Resurrection School.

In April 1972 Sister Mary Thecla came to the motherhouse in Wilmette. She worked as the librarian at Mallinckrodt College and was provincial councilor and provincial secretary. In 1983 she took charge of the Law Library at Mallinckrodt College — a job she continued with until 1991. She was an instructor at the college in the 1980s, including for a popular paralegal course she created. Sister Mary Thecla also was the province archivist from 1983 until 1994.

In 1998 Sister Mary Thecla moved to Sacred Heart Convent in Wilmette.

Survivors include seven brothers and sisters: Gina Currall, Mary Ann Hill, Clare Wente, Marcella Sherman, John Malawey, Charlie Malawey and Stanley Malawey.