Sister Mary A. Delaney

Framingham – Sister Mary A. Delaney, C.S.J. (Sister Capistran) a beloved member of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Boston for 66 years, died Monday, July 18, 2011 in the Bethany Health Care Center in Framingham. She was 85.

Sister Mary was a graduate of Saint Charles High School in Waltham and received her bachelors degree from Regis College in 1953. She earned a masters degree in education at the University of Massachusetts in Boston in 1973 and a masters in divinity degree from Andover Newton Theological School five years later.

Formerly missioned as a teacher at St. John School in the North End of Boston and at Holy Name School in West Roxbury, Sister Mary ministered as chaplain at Boston City Hospital and at University of Rochester Medical Center in New York. Sister Mary served as Director and Supervisor of Clinical Pastoral Education at the following hospitals in Nova Scotia and in Alberta, Canada: Cape Breton Hospital, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Dartmouth Hospital, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Hospital, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Misericordia Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta as well as Supervisor at Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover, New Hampshire.

Sister Mary was the daughter of the late Thomas J. and Mary T. (Berry) Delaney and the sister of the late Margaret R. Boudreau, James M., John B., William B. and Thomas J. Delaney.

She is survived by her beloved sister, Sister Janis Delaney, C.S.J. of Brighton, her sister-in-law, Jeanne M. Delaney of Waltham and many loving nieces, nephews, grandnieces, grandnephews, great grandnieces, and great grandnephews.

Family and friends will honor and remember Sister Mary’s life by gathering for calling hours in the Chapel at Bethany Health Care Center, 97 Bethany Road, Framingham on Friday, July 22nd, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. followed by a Vigil Prayer Service at 5:30 p.m.

Her funeral will be held at 9 a.m. on Saturday morning from The Joyce Funeral Home, 245 Main Street (Rte. 20), Waltham followed by a Funeral Mass in Saint Charles Borromeo Church, 51 Hall Street, Waltham at 10 a.m. Burial will follow in Calvary Cemetery, Waltham.

Memorial donations made to the Sisters of Saint Joseph, c/o Mission Advancement, 637 Cambridge St., Brighton, MA 02135.