Rosemary belonged to two cultural worlds. She was by temperament Latina and drawn to Latin America, the place of her birth and childhood. At the same time, she treasured her Irish/English ancestry and her British citizenship, and lived most of her life in the United States, therefore never able to vote anywhere. When she finally went to England for the first time at the age of thirty, she was for the first time not a resident alien but truly home,
She performed many different difficult tasks, and did them well: closing EI Cajon and the boarding school at Menlo, moving the noviceship from Boston to Chicago. Someone noted that the reason she got so many tough jobs was that people knew she could do them. She was the
valiant woman with open hands to the poor, to her friends, to anyone who needed what she could give. Some of her siblings described her as "the best possible older sister."
From 1990 to 1992, she was Assistant Principal at Our Lady of Guadalupe School, Houston. Later she went to LaBelle, Florida, to do pastoral and Hispanic ministry from August, 2001 to July, 2002. To read more about Rosemary's life, click on the link under her picture.
