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Retired nun finds new life in West Virginia mountains
Sister Aurelia Schiffgens, 84, left Tarentum in 1922 to join the Sisters of Divine Providence. Now in Webster County, she lives in a trailer on McGuire Mountain and tutors 66 year old Delbert Perrine in Literacy Volunteers of America. She says God inspired the move and she finds peace, prayer, and purpose in teaching.
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Cowen
W.va
Aurelia Schiffgens
Tarentum
Sisters of Divine Providence
Pittsburgh
Aurelia
West Virginia
Mary Weatherly
Appalachia
Mary Joan
Sister Aurelia
Webster County
Birch River
Big Ditch Lake
McGuire Mountain
Mountaineer
Sister
Sister Mary
Literacy Volunteers of America
Delbert Perriné
Erbacon
Perrine
Morgantown
Delbert
Mr. Perrine
Webster Springs
St. Anne Church
Mary
Christ