Obituary of Sister Mary Denis Marentette

Sister Mary Denis Marentette At L.H.S.C. University Campus on Friday, June 10, 2005, Sister Mary Denis Marentette of the Community of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Diocese of London, in her 86th year and 65th year of religious life. Survived by her sister Gloria Marren, her niece Anne Marie Kersey and her nephews Bob and Patrick Rondot and her community, the Sisters of St. Joseph. Her parents, Denis Marentette and Ida ( Bondy ) and her sister Juliette ( Rondot ), died some years ago. Sister Mary Denis, native of Windsor, Ontario, and a graduate of St. Mary's Academy, and of the University of Windsor, pursued post graduate work in French at Laval University. Her contribution to educationfor 1943 to 1973 was primary school to senior secondary and principalship. At the end of her teaching ministry, she gave her life to a wide variety of jobs; home-making and pastoral work in Leamington, serving at Marion Villa, London, hospitalityand tutoring of students at Mount St. Joseph. Although Sister Mary Denis engaged in so many works of our community, her most profound work was her patient enduring of blindness and total inaction for fourteen years in our infirmary, Ignatia Hall. Visitors will be received at Mount St. Joseph Motherhouse, 1486 Richmond Street, N., London on Saturday, June 11, 2005 from 1:30 to 4 pm and 7 pm to 9:00 pm and Sunday from 2 - 4 p.m. Mass of the Resurrection in Immaculate Conception Chapel on Sunday, June 12, 2005 at 7 p.m. Interment in St. Peter's Cemetery on Monday morning at 9:30 am. ( John T. Donohue Funeral Home )