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Jubilees mark 505 years of mercy service across eight sisters
Eight Sisters of Mercy mark 505 combined years of ministry at Mount Mercy University and area churches. Ceremonies include Eucharistic liturgies and 2 to 4 p.m. receptions honoring Mary Gardner, Corkery, Montgomery, Dunnwald, Podzimek, Kepros, Meyers, and Weigel for 60 to 75 years of service across education, administration, care, and leadership in Cedar Rapids and surrounding parishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sisters of Mercy
Catherine McAuley
Chapel of Mercy
Mount Mercy University
Mary Lenore Gardner
Mount Mercy
Gardner
Elma
Immaculate Conception
Mount Mercy Junior College
DePaul University School of Music
Chicago
Iowa
St. Wenceslaus
Cedar Rapids
Cedar
Mercy Medical Center
Sacred Heart Life Center
Mary Corkery
Sumner
St. John’s University
Cleveland
Dorothy Elizabeth Montgomery
Baltimore
Montgomery
Ilchester
Trinity College
Washington, D.C
Clarke College
Dubuque
All Saints
St. Matthew’s
St. Joseph’s
Marion
Susan Dunnwald
Sister of Mercy
Waterloo
Mount Mercy College
Loras College
St. Matthew School
Archdiocese of
St. Patrick Parish
Anamosa
Jerome Hanus
Sacred Heart Convent
Mary Lou Podzimek
Mount Mercy University Commons
Mount Mercy Academy
Jesuit School of Theology
Berkeley
Calif
Sacred Heart
Oelwein
St. Benedict
Decorah
Podzimek
Dennis and
Donna Oldorf
House of Mercy
Catherine McAuley Center
Mary Julia Kepros
Marion High School
Cardinal Stritch College
Milwaukee
St. Meinrad School of Theology
St. Meinrad
Ind
St. Matthew
St. Louis University
Missouri
Washington University
St. Louis
Florida International University
Miami
Fairfax
Margaret Weigel
Flaherty
Basile Hall
Boone
University of Northern Iowa
West Midwest
Coleader of Mercy Associates