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Dolores TaddyF I R S T P R O F E S S I O N

80 years

Sister

Dolores TaddyS TO R I E S F R O M M I N I S T R Y

My life as a Sister of St. Agnes spans 80 years of ministering among many cultures in the United States, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Honduras. Sometime after the first sisters volunteered to go to Nicaragua, I also asked to become a missionary there; however, instead of becoming a missionary in a foreign country, I spent more than 20 years teaching in small rural areas, small towns in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana, in schools in Harlem and Bronx, New York, and in an orphanage for Native American children in Michigan. Only much later was my desire to be a foreign missionary in Latin America realized. My first missionary experience happened in 1967. Sister Paulette Shaw, Sister Margaret Rose Vanden Heuvel and I arrived in Boca de los Sapos near Guayaquil, Ecuador. This was one of the poorest missions where the Sisters of St. Agnes have ever worked. My ministry there was varied especially because I was able to drive sisters and catechists to the rural areas to teach and to provide medical care for the poor.

Many times, after driving the sisters to deliver a baby at the home of a woman in labor, I held the lantern while the sister assisted in the birth of the baby. I especially recall the times I drove the sisters to Guayaquil. This meant I had to drive the car as far as the road went, and then onto a barge which would take us to the other side of the river. I will always remember one particular occasion when we took with us a man and his wife who was in labor. While we were on the barge, it was evident the baby would not wait any longer. Sister Paulette moved quickly into action in the back seat of the car. I will never forget the feeling I had when she handed me the baby to hold while she cared for the mother. Is it any wonder we always referred to the barge as “the Baby Barge” after that?

E D U C AT I O N

St. Agnes; Fond du Lac, WI BS Elementary Education

Marian College; Fond du Lac, WI BS in Education/Minor Eng or Soc. Stud.

Fordham University; New York Spanish

St. Louis University; St. Louis, MO Child in Institution

St. Norbert; DePere, WI Elem. School Library and Admin.

Wis. State College; Oshkosh, WI Math

Pontifical Catholic University; Ponce, Puerto Rico Spanish/International Studies

Catholic Commission; Managua, Nicaragua; Basic Catechetics

Univ of St. Francis; Ft. Wayne, IN Gen. Mtds/Lang. Arts

University of Dayton; Dayton, OH PH Mission

Adams Co. Hospital; Decatur, IN CNA

University of New Mexico; Gallup, NM Ed. Computer

Fond du Lac, WI Religious education

F I R S T P R O F E S S I O N

1940

B I R T H P L AC E / H O M E TO W N

Two Rivers, WI

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Sister

Dolores TaddyM I N I S T R Y S I T E S

St. Mary’s Parish; Mayville, WITeacher

1941 - 1944

Immaculate Conception; Elmhurst, ILTeacher

1944 - 1951

1940 - 1941

Marian College; Fond du Lac, WIStudent

St. Mary’s; Crown Point, INTeacher

1951 - 1953

Our Lady Queen of Angels; Harlem, NYTeacher

1951 - 1953

St. Joseph’s Home; Assinins, MITeacher

1955 - 1957

St. Mary’s; Marytown, WITeacher

1957 - 1964

St. Mary’s; Oshkosh, WITeacher

1964 - 1966

Holy Family; Bronx, NYTeacher

1966 - 1967

Santo Rosario; El Triunfo, Ecuador Catechist

1966 - 1967

Santa Rosa; Rosita, Nicaragua Teacher

1967 - 1968

San Raphael; Waspam, Nicaragua Teacher

1969

St. Mary’s; Decatur, INTeacher

1969 - 1970

Instituto Nat’l Bartolome; Puerto Cabezas, NicaraguaTeacher

1971 - 1982

Place 2B; Oshkosh, WISocial Worker

1982 - 1984

St. Francis; Gallup, NMTeacher

1984 - 1987

Colegio Nino Jesus; Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua Teacher

1987 - 1988

Colego Santa Ines; Waspam, Nicaragua Teacher

1988 - 2000

Santo Rosario; Nueva Octepeque, HondurasCatechist

1969 - 1970

St. Agnes Convent; Fond du Lac, WIVolunteer at St. Francis Home, Religious Educator

2000 - 2012

Nazareth Court & Center; Fond du Lac, WIMaking rosaries

2012 -