Submitted by: Nadine A. Hardin

Name:  Toth, Sr. Mary A.

Names mentioned:  Papp, Raimonde, Suth, Toth

South Bend Tribune, Obituaries; May 26, 2000

Sister Mary A. Toth

Oct.15, 1915 – May 20, 2000

Sister Mary Angelica Toth, 84, of Arrochar, N.Y., a former teacher at St. Joseph Hill Academy, died on Saturday, May 20, in Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze.

Born Julia Toth in South Bend, Ind., she came to Staten Island as a postulant of the Congregation of the Daughters of Divine Charity in 1930. In 1932 she received the habit and her name in religion, Sister Angelica.

Two years later Sister Angelica made her first profession of vows and in 1940, she pronounced her perpetual vows. Sister Angelica taught at parish schools staffed by the Daughters of Divine Charity in Ohio, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Illinois. In 1968 she was assigned to teach at St. Joseph Hill Academy, retiring in 1975 because of illness.

Sister Angelica earned a bachelor of arts degree in education from DePaul University, Chicago, Ill., and did graduate work at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich.

Since 1975 Sister Angelica tended the alter and sacristy at the convent at the St. Joseph Hill Academy, and served as seamstress for the sisters.

She was honored in 1994 during a mass in the St. Joseph Hill Academy auditorium, marking her 60^th anniversary with the Daughters of Divine Charity.

Known for her kindness, Sister Angelica had a great love for the poor and collected clothes and distributed them to the needy.

“She had no time for hobbies because she was always busy doing something,” said Sister Mary Raimonde, assistant principal at St. Joseph Hill Academy. “She really was the seamstress for all of us. Anytime anybody needed anything made or altered, she was there. She was the person who couldn’t say no. She was a very precious person.”

She is survived by two sisters, Ann Suth and Theresa Papp; and by many nieces and nephews.

The funeral was on Wednesday, May 24, in the Harmon Home for Funerals, West Brighton, with mass at 10 a.m. in the St. Joseph Convent, Arrochar, N.Y. Burial will be in Resurrection Cemetery, Pleasant Plains, N.Y.