Nationality: Irish
Congregational Register No: 38
D.O.B. 11.12.1900
First Profession: 02.07.1943
Died: 27.09.1976 Aged: 75 years
Agnes Johnston was a convert to Catholicism when she entered in Rosemount on 15 August 1940.
Nationality: British
Congregational Register No. 328
D.O.B. 10.12.1920
First Profession 08.09.1955
Died: 17.02.2003 Aged: 82 years
Catherine Jennings came from Lancashire in the north of England. She was the second of three daughters. Following her education, she worked for some years as a clerk typist before starting nurse training when she was twenty-one. Once qualified, she worked as a staff nurse and later as a district nurse in Lancashire.
Nationality: Irish
Congregational Register No: 137
D.O.B. 29.08.1912
First Profession: 08.09.1947
Died: 18.08.1978 Aged: 66 years
A native of Farranthomas, Co. Cork, Sheila entered on 8 December 1944. She had trained as a midwife and after first profession was assigned to Nigeria, where she worked for many years in Anua and some of the out-stations, especially Akpa Utong, (founder member).
Nationality: Irish
Congregational Register No: 248
D.O.B. 06.10.1931
First Profession: 07.09.1952
Died: 18.01.1998 Aged: 66 years
Mary Hunt from near Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo, entered MMM on 1 March 1950, having a few years previously worked with the Mayo County Council.
Nationality: British
Congregational Register No.
D.O.B.06.03.1939
First Profession 18.01.1975
Died: 10.11.2009 Aged: 70 years
Kathleen Mary Howard was born in Derby, England in 1939. She had one brother and one sister. Mary went to primary school in Derby and when the family moved to Southport, she continued her education at Notre Dame Grammar School, where she passed her GCE ‘O’ and ‘A’ Levels.
Nationality: Irish
Congregational Register No: 239
D.O.B. 24.09.1909
First Profession: 17.03.1952
Died: 28.05.1990 Aged: 81 years
Sheila Hogan, from Dublin, entered MMM in September 1949. She was forty years of age and already a qualified nurse and radiographer.
Nationality: Irish
Congregational Register No: 482
D.O.B. 27.08.1923
First Profession: 06.05.1961
Died: 04.11.2008 Aged: 85 years
Bridget Hogan came from a large Tipperary farming family and was one of eight girls and five boys. She was educated at the Ursuline Convent in Thurles, where she matriculated and took her leaving certificate.
Sister Patricia (Laurence) was born in Mullingar, Co. Westmeath in 1933. She received her early education in Longford and joined the Medical Missionaries of Mary in 1951. This was just a year before the novitiate was destroyed by fire. As a novice she looked after Mother Mary Martin and learned very much from that experience.
‘Patsy’ did her general nursing training in Drogheda and was one of the first group to graduate from the nurses’ training school there. Previous groups had had to do their training in Dublin.
Sr. Agnes Hinder was born in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland in 1927. She had three sisters and one brother. The family had a beautiful home surrounded by mountains and woods and the children skied to school in the winter. Agnes trained and worked in domestic science for five years before qualifying as a children’s nurse. She worked as a private children’s nurse for four years and then completed studies in general nursing and anaesthetics. She was now a highly qualified nurse and wondered which direction her life should take.
Sister Nancy was born Anne Hilliard in Maio, Moynalty, Co. Meath in 1929, and was one of eleven children. She received her early education in Navan and joined the Medical Missionaries of Mary in 1947.
After qualifying as a physician in UCD, her first assignment was to Tanzania in 1956, where she spent seven years at Chala and Mpanda clinics. In 1963 she responded to a request from Kitovu Hospital in Uganda for a doctor to relieve for a year.
