-Sister Mary Adela CSC (Mary Adeline Carthew)
died peacefully on Friday, November 14, 2008 at North York General Hospital. She was born March 15, 1912 at Moorefield near Palmerston Ontario, daughter of the late Alfred Morden Carthew and Ethel Margaret McIntyre. Predeceased by brothers Morden and Peter and sister Alice. Beloved aunt of Jacqueline Marinelli, Marlene Edwards, Anne Marie Heyneman, Don Carthew, Anne McLaughlin and Sandy Sutherland and great aunt of many. She graduated as a nurse from Hamilton General Hospital in 1932 and became the school nurse at St. Mildred's College, Toronto in 1936. Sr. Mary Adela entered the Community of the Sisters of the Church in 1938 and was professed on September 28, 1943. She held several positions of authority in the Community here in Canada and was in charge of the Lightbourn School in Oakville from 1964 to 1967. For some years Sister lived in St. Elizabeth Village in Hamilton and from 2001 was lovingly cared for in the infirmary of the Sisterhood of St. John the Divine in Toronto. Visitation will be held at the Kopriva Taylor Community Funeral Home, 64 Lakeshore Road West, Oakville (one block east of Kerr, 905-844-2600) on Thursday 2-4 and 7-9pm and on Friday 2-4 and 7-8 pm at St. John's Convent, 33 Cummer Avenue, Toronto. Requiem Mass at 10 am Saturday, November 22nd the Church of St. Mary Magdalene, 477 Manning Avenue (at Ulster). In lieu of flowers, donations please, to the Community of the Sisters of the Church, St. Mildred's-Lightbourn School, Oakville, or the Church of St. Mary Magdalene Toronto. Cremation and interment of ashes in the Sister's plot in St. James Cemetery, Toronto at a later date.