BLACK

Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Thursday, April 03, 2008 at 13:51:54 :

Independent Journal
Wednesday, May 14, 1980
Page 6

SISTER DOLOROSA BLACK

Sister M. Dolorosa Black, who had lived at the Dominican Convent in San Rafael since her retirement in 1968, died in Lourdes Infirmary there today after an illness of two months. She was 87.

Sister Dolorosa was born and reared in San Francisco. She studied at the convent in San Rafael for a time and t hen transferred to St. Rose Academy in San Francisco where she graduated.

She entered the convent in 1911 and taught school in Vallejo and Benicia before training as a registered nurse at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Stockton. She served as a nurse at that hospital and also at St. Mary’s Hospital in Reno and the children’s infirmary at the old St. Catherine’s School in Benicia before retiring.

A Mass of Christian Burial is to be celebrated tonight at 7:30 at the Dominican Convent. Burial will be in St. Dominic’s Cemetery in Benicia.

The rosary will be recited at 4:30 this afternoon at the convent.

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A Death Notice in the same paper mentions that Keaton’s Mortuary in San Rafael handled arrangements.