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Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Jubilee to be held for 75 years of service for Walters
The Congregation of the Humility of Mary (CHM) will celebrate the jubilees of 12 vowed sisters and one associate at a
special mass of celebration at Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Bettendorf, on Sunday, June 26 at 2 p.m. Bishop Martin AMOS
will be the principal celebrant at the liturgy. Among those honored will be sister Carolyn WALTERS (Joseph Mary), who
has been a sister for 75 years. Sr. Carolyn WALTERS was born in 1919 in Beaconsfield, and entered the Congregation of
the Humility of Mary in 1937. She pronounced her first vows in 1939. WALTERS studied education at Ottumwa Heights
College in Ottumwa and received her bachelor's degree from Marycrest College in Davenport. She later received a master's
degree in gerontology from the University of Southern Florida in Tampa, FL. She taught at St. Mary's School in Ottumwa,
Cosgrove Consolidated in Cosgrove, St. Anthony's in Des Moines, and Georgetown Public School in Iowa. She served as
assistant to the dean and as registrar at Marycrest College, as co-director of the Department of Social Concerns in the
Diocese of Jefferson City, MO, and as a nurse aide at Ottumwa Heights Infirmary in Ottumwa. At Teikyo/Marycrest
University she was coordinator of alumni records and upon retirement she continued there as sacristan and volunteer.
In 2004 she was honored as co-founder of the Quad-Cities Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association. Her ministry now is
prayer and witness as a resident
of Humility of Mary Center in Davenport. People who would like to send a card of congratulations can do so by mailing it
to:
Sr. Carolyn WALTERS
Humility of Mary Center
820 West Central Park Avenue
Davenport, IA 52804
Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, May of 2011
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