Nationality: Irish
Congregational Register No: 387
D.O.B. 21.08.1930
First Profession: 05.03.1957
Died: 05.09.2005 Aged: 75
Mary Theresa Marshall came from Dungannon, Co. Tyrone in Northern Ireland. She was from a family of seven, four brothers and three sisters. She entered MMM in 1954, age 23, and took the name Sr. M. Anita.
Nationality: Irish
Congregational Register No: 65
D.O.B. 28.03.1902
First Profession: 06.01.1945
Died: 22.10.1980 Aged: 78 years
Ethel Malynn from Moate, Co. Westmeath, entered in Drogheda on 30 September 1941 when MMM was still in its infancy.
Nationality: Irish
Congregational Register No: 157
D.O.B. 17.06.1920
First Profession: 07.09.1949
Died: 15.01.1999 Aged: 78 years
A very quiet, unobtrusive person, Eileen from Armagh, No. Ireland, entered MMM on 25 March1946.
She had been working as a dressmaker but also had secretarial skills and these were much appreciated in the general promotion office and Sweep office in Drogheda.
Nationality: Irish
Congregational Register No: 428
D.O.B. 20.05.1919
First Profession: 06.05.1959
Died: 17.08.1998 Aged: 79 years
Baptised Mary Catherine and from Drumree, Co. Meath, Sr. Salette entered MMM on 31 May1956. She was a fully qualified nurse on entering.
Nationality: Irish
Congregational Register No: 367
D.O.B. 21.04.1896
First Profession: 02.07.1956
Died: 14.07.1983 Aged: 86 years
Sybil Catherine (nee Stanton) from Granard, Co. Longford, was a widow when she entered MMM at Drogheda on 8 December 1953. A qualified doctor, she had been in public health work in Co. Longford, (where her daughter also lived) prior to entering MMM.
Sister Barbara (also known as Sister Bosco) was born in Kilmallock, Limerick, in 1926. Her mother died just four months after Barbara was born. Her father remarried and she grew up in a very united and loving family. She attended Kilmallock School in Limerick and Ballyvaughan National School in Clare and then went to the Ursuline Convent in Sligo for her secondary education.
Barbara joined the Medical Missionaries of Mary in 1945. After profession she trained as a nurse in St. Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin and the IMTH Drogheda. After a year as a staff nurse in Drogheda she trained as a nurse tutor at the Royal College of Nursing in Edinburgh. In 1954 she was assigned to Nigeria, where she was nursing tutor in Saint Luke’s Hospital in Anua for eight years.
Sister Maura was born in Youghal, County Cork in 1938, the fourth of nine children. She joined MMM in 1956. After qualifying in medicine in University College Dublin she was assigned to Angola in 1967. In preparation, she first went to Lisbon, Portugal to learn the language and to study at the Lisbon School of Tropical Medicine.
She was to spend fourteen of the next twenty years in Angola, then known as Portuguese West Africa, mainly as medical director of the hospital at Chiulo. Situated in a remote area in the south of the country, at the time, the hospital was small, with limited resources. Maura contributed greatly to its development.
Sister Denise was born Philomena Lynch in Baillieston, Glasgow, Scotland in 1932. She attended West of Scotland Commercial College, obtained an advanced certificate in elocution in London, and worked as a secretary in a solicitor’s office before joining the Medical Missionaries of Mary in 1951. Her sister Patricia is also an MMM.
After profession she did nurse training in the IMTH. In 1956 she was assigned to Nigeria, where she served for three years as a secretary in Ikom. Back in Ireland, she worked in administration in the IMTH for five years and completed a diploma in social studies. Returning to Nigeria in 1965, she was a secretary in the Apostolic delegation in Lagos for three years.
Nationality: Irish
Congregational Register No. 2
D.O.B. 13.01.1907
First and Final Profession 06.01.1947
Died: 10.11.01 Aged: 94 years
Nora Leydon was born in Kilmactrenny in Co. Sligo. Nora was the third child in the family. Her mother died some months after her birth and this circumstance made her very special to her father. After leaving school Nora went to Maguire’s Secretarial College in Dublin.
Nationality: Irish
Congregational Register No. 320
D.O.B.: 07.10.1923
First Profession 09.09.1960
Died: 19.06.2010 Aged: 86 years.
Rosaleen Mary Levins came from of a large, religious, north Dublin family. Two of her brothers were later ordained. Rosaleen Mary grew up to be a strong, determined, independent-minded girl. As just a young woman she joined the Belfast Fire Brigade during WWII to do her bit to save lives during the heavy bombing of that city. Before entering MMM at the age of 28, she was working as a bookkeeper in a bakery in north Dublin.
