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Sister Carlota Baca (left) celebrated her 80th Jubilee on May 24. Sister Sharon Rose Eshleman celebrated her 50th Jubilee.
Celebrating 75th Jubilees were Sr. Rose Elizabeth Hohner (left), Sr. Dorothy Anne Lengerich (center) and Sr. Margaret Gutierrez (right).
Celebrating 70th Jubilees were Sr. Millicent Peaslee (left), Sr. Helena Smith (center), Sr. Martha Wilke (right) and Sr. Pauline Wapiennik (behind).
Celebrating 60th Jubilees were Sr. Dolores Tringl (left), Sr. Gertrude Sullivan (center), Sr. Alodia Carney (right) and Sr. Helen Carney (behind).
Fourteen members of Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters celebrated Jubilees May 24 at Victory Noll in Huntington on the anniversaries of their entrances into OLVM.
Sister Carlota Baca, who turned 100 years old in January, celebrated 80 years with OLVM. She entered on Oct. 28, 1928. A native of Peña Blanca, N.M., Sr. Carlota was missioned in New Mexico, California, Texas and Arizona throughout her career.
Three Victory Noll Sisters celebrated their 75th Jubilee, all entering OLVM in 1934.
Sr. Margaret Gutierrez is a native of Duarte, Calif., and was missioned in California, Texas and Bolivia before returning to Victory Noll.
Sr. Rose Elizabeth Hohner, born in Wheatfield, Ind., was missioned in Gary, Indiana Harbor and Fort Wayne in Indiana, and also spent time in Texas and New Mexico.
Sr. Dorothy Anne Lengerich is a native of Decatur, Ind. Her mission work took her to California, Texas, Wyoming, Michigan, Indiana, Nevada, Massachusetts, Utah, Ohio, Iowa, Colorado and New Jersey.
Four Sisters celebrated 70 years with Victory Noll, entering in 1939.
Sr. Millicent Peaslee, born in Gary, Ind., was missioned in Indiana, Michigan, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and California. She currently is involved in volunteer ministry in Alpine, Calif.
Sr. Helena Smith is a native of New Oxford, Penn. Her mission work took her to Utah, Indiana, Florida and California.
Sr. Pauline Wapiennik was born in Gary, Ind., and was missioned in California, Michigan, Indiana, Vermont and Wyoming.
Sr. Martha Wilke, a native of St. Rose, Ill. She was missioned to Indiana, Colorado, California, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Michigan and Texas. She is currently involved with prison ministry at Victory Noll through letter-writing.
Among the five Sisters celebrating their 60th Jubilees are actual sisters Alodia and Helen Carney, natives of Detroit who grew up in Iowa and joined OLVM on the same day on Oct. 27, 1949. Sr. Alodia has been missioned to Texas, Iowa, Indiana, California, Colorado and Michigan. She now works at St. Patrick Parish in Fort Wayne, Ind. Sr. Helen's mission work has taken her to Texas, Ohio, California and New Mexico. She currently is Parish LIfe Coordinator in Villanueva, N.M.
Also celebrating 60 years are Sr. Irene DeMeulenaere, born in Victor, Iowa. She was missioned to Nevada, California, New Mexico, Wyoming, Arizona and Indiana. She is now a personal needs assistant at Victory Noll.
Sr. Gertrude Sullivan, a native of Kendall, Wisc., was missioned to Michigan, California, Florida, Nevada, Indiana and Arizona. She served as President of the COngregation at OLVM from 1971-77.
Sr. Dolores Tringl, from St. Louis, has spent her mission work in Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Missouri, Indiana and Arizona. She serves as a chaplain for the University Medical Center in Tucson, Ariz.
One OLVM Sister celebrated her 50th Jubilee. Sr. Sharon Rose Eshleman, from Piper City, Ill., has been missioned in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Utah and New Mexico. She currently serves as librarian at Victory Noll..
Our Lady of Victory Missonary Sisters is an American Missionary Congregation founded in 1922 — serving the poor and oppressed in a personal, non-institutional way
+ Proclaiming the Gospel + Working for Justice + Empowering the Laity
We want to minister to the culturally diverse Catholic population of this country, proclaiming Jesus Christ through evangelization, education and/or Christian formation. We would like to offer a solid Catholic teaching and ministries that speak to the needs of the faith communities, empowering the Laity, dedicating our prayer and ministry to the proclamation of God's Kingdom.
That is why we have become part of a network of religious communities collaborating to assist home mission dioceses in their efforts to develop lay leadership and ministry. This is an initiative of the Home Missions Leadership Conference and the Congar Institute for Ministry Development. READ MORE
