Sister Elizabeth Barribeau, OP

BARRIBEAU

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 2/20/2021 at 19:07:10

Sister Elizabeth (Valerian) Barribeau, OP, died Feb. 3, 2021. Professed in 1944, she taught in the following schools: St. Sabina, Chicago; St. Mary, Evanston, IL; Annunciation, Minneapolis; Most Pure Heart of Mary, Mobile, AL; St. Joseph the Worker, Dubuque, IA; St. Mary, Portage, WI; and Edgewood Campus School, Madison, WI. Students were individually and collectively made to feel special in her classroom. In 1962, Sr. Liz transferred her religious vows to the Mt. St. Mary’s Abbey of Trappist nuns in Wrentham, MA, who in 1964 established a new foundation near Dubuque, IA. Sr. Liz became a foundress of that congregation, and returned to the Sinsinawa congregation in 1985. She served as assistant principal at Our Lady of Refuge, Bronx, NY; director of a tutoring program for migrant children at Lee County School System, Fort Myers and Bonita Springs, FL; and pastoral minister at Poinsettia Park, Fort Myers, FL. Sr. Liz volunteered in the library at the Motherhouse, Sinsinawa, and made rosaries for baptism and First Communion gifts. She found great joy in greeting everyone she met and saying something humorous to lighten their day. May she rest in peace.