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Sister Charles Consilli Anderson, beloved Sister of St. Joseph died at St. Joseph Villa on April 29, 2010. Her Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at St. Joseph Villa on May 5th.
Sister Charles was born on February 8, 1930 in Bridgeton, NJ to Kathryn and Charles Anderson; she was the youngest of four daughters. Carolyn, Sister Charles, was baptized in Immaculate Conception Church and later attended the parish school through the eighth grade. After graduating from Bridgeton High School, she studied nursing at Misericordia School of Nursing; she graduated from the school in 1950 with an R.N. degree.
Sister Charles thought seriously about becoming a Sister of St. Joseph while in her senior year at Misericordia; however, this was not to happen immediately. Her mother was diagnosed with cancer about this time and S. Charles certainly felt she should stay with her mother to help her. She did this and also practiced nursing at Bridgeton Hospital. Her mother died in January of 1951. Later that year, she talked with her father about going to Chestnut Hill to make application to become an SSJ; he was aware that she intended to do this because her mother had told him about it before she died. Despite the fact that he was not a catholic and that her leaving would leave him alone (the older girls were married and were living elsewhere), he agreed that she should follow her heart.
Sister. Charles traveled to Chestnut Hill via public transportation to keep her appointment with Mother Marie Estelle; after the appointment she met her dad at the Flower Show in Convention Center in Philly. Until the end of her life, the annual Flower Show had had fond and meaningful memories for her.
Sister Charles entered the novitiate in September of 1951. When it came time to choose a name, she realized that all of the combinations of Carolyn and Charles had been used. Because she prayed to Our Mother of Good Counsel each day in Nursing School so that she would know how to help her patients, she asked to be given some form of this title of Our Lady. Coupled with her father's name, was the Latin, Consilii: thus, Sister Charles Consilii. Fortunately, she had told her dad about her plan to take his name because he died very suddenly at age 60 of a heart attack. This happened two weeks before she received the habit of the Sisters of St. Joseph.
After her canonical year, she was assigned to the Community Infirmary, on the third floor of the Motherhouse, which was equipped for skilled care, including an operating room. In 1954, changes occurred. St. Joseph Villa in Cheltenham had been utilized as a facility for sisters with tuberculosis; at this time it was used as a home for sick or elderly sisters. One of the sister nurses died suddenly and it fell upon the four nurses at the Infirmary to step into the picture. The schedule involved a month of duty working at Cheltenham on the second floor, on a rotating basis. This lasted for fourteen years.
The biggest change came in 1968, with the opening of St. Joseph Villa in Flourtown. About those first days, Sister Charles said, the nurses' duties were maintenance, housekeeping, dietary, and nursing. They even carried the meals to the patients, and washed the dishes.
All of this information was gleaned by Sister Marion Aherne in an interview with Sister Charles in August of 2001. How fortunate was it that the interview took place! Well beyond facts, however, lie the spirit and heart of Sister Charles Consilli. It was her heart and spirit that manifested themselves in her peaceful, loving, gentle, generous manner. It was not only her skills as nurse that promoted healing, ; it was also, and indeed, her loving, caring manner with her patients.
Sister Anne Meyer said it well, "Hers was a life lived in gentle union with the God of her heart. Through [her] gentle, selfless, peaceable manner, [she has] quietly distinguished [herself ]as one of the great women of our Congregation."
Source:
http://www.ssjphila.org/Archivelst.htm
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SISTER CHARLES CONSILII ANDERSON, SSJ CAROLINE, April 29, 2010, age 80. Sister of Katherine Applegate (Norman) and the late Dorothy Post (Bergen) and Alberta Poles (Fred); also survived by niece, nephew and members of her community, The Sisters of St. Joseph. Religious, relatives and friends invited to Viewing Wednesday, 1:30 P.M., followed by Funeral Mass, 3 P.M., at St. Joseph Villa, 110 W. Wissahickon Ave., Flourtown PA 19031. Int. Villa Cemetery. Donations in Sister's name to St. Joseph Villa would be appreciated. KOLLER FUNERAL HOME
Philadelphia Inquirer, May 2, 2010
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Sister Charles Consilli Anderson, beloved Sister of St. Joseph died at St. Joseph Villa on April 29, 2010. Her Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at St. Joseph Villa on May 5th.
Sister Charles was born on February 8, 1930 in Bridgeton, NJ to Kathryn and Charles Anderson; she was the youngest of four daughters. Carolyn, Sister Charles, was baptized in Immaculate Conception Church and later attended the parish school through the eighth grade. After graduating from Bridgeton High School, she studied nursing at Misericordia School of Nursing; she graduated from the school in 1950 with an R.N. degree.
Sister Charles thought seriously about becoming a Sister of St. Joseph while in her senior year at Misericordia; however, this was not to happen immediately. Her mother was diagnosed with cancer about this time and S. Charles certainly felt she should stay with her mother to help her. She did this and also practiced nursing at Bridgeton Hospital. Her mother died in January of 1951. Later that year, she talked with her father about going to Chestnut Hill to make application to become an SSJ; he was aware that she intended to do this because her mother had told him about it before she died. Despite the fact that he was not a catholic and that her leaving would leave him alone (the older girls were married and were living elsewhere), he agreed that she should follow her heart.
Sister. Charles traveled to Chestnut Hill via public transportation to keep her appointment with Mother Marie Estelle; after the appointment she met her dad at the Flower Show in Convention Center in Philly. Until the end of her life, the annual Flower Show had had fond and meaningful memories for her.
Sister Charles entered the novitiate in September of 1951. When it came time to choose a name, she realized that all of the combinations of Carolyn and Charles had been used. Because she prayed to Our Mother of Good Counsel each day in Nursing School so that she would know how to help her patients, she asked to be given some form of this title of Our Lady. Coupled with her father's name, was the Latin, Consilii: thus, Sister Charles Consilii. Fortunately, she had told her dad about her plan to take his name because he died very suddenly at age 60 of a heart attack. This happened two weeks before she received the habit of the Sisters of St. Joseph.
After her canonical year, she was assigned to the Community Infirmary, on the third floor of the Motherhouse, which was equipped for skilled care, including an operating room. In 1954, changes occurred. St. Joseph Villa in Cheltenham had been utilized as a facility for sisters with tuberculosis; at this time it was used as a home for sick or elderly sisters. One of the sister nurses died suddenly and it fell upon the four nurses at the Infirmary to step into the picture. The schedule involved a month of duty working at Cheltenham on the second floor, on a rotating basis. This lasted for fourteen years.
The biggest change came in 1968, with the opening of St. Joseph Villa in Flourtown. About those first days, Sister Charles said, the nurses' duties were maintenance, housekeeping, dietary, and nursing. They even carried the meals to the patients, and washed the dishes.
All of this information was gleaned by Sister Marion Aherne in an interview with Sister Charles in August of 2001. How fortunate was it that the interview took place! Well beyond facts, however, lie the spirit and heart of Sister Charles Consilli. It was her heart and spirit that manifested themselves in her peaceful, loving, gentle, generous manner. It was not only her skills as nurse that promoted healing, ; it was also, and indeed, her loving, caring manner with her patients.
Sister Anne Meyer said it well, "Hers was a life lived in gentle union with the God of her heart. Through [her] gentle, selfless, peaceable manner, [she has] quietly distinguished [herself ]as one of the great women of our Congregation."
Source:
http://www.ssjphila.org/Archivelst.htm
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SISTER CHARLES CONSILII ANDERSON, SSJ CAROLINE, April 29, 2010, age 80. Sister of Katherine Applegate (Norman) and the late Dorothy Post (Bergen) and Alberta Poles (Fred); also survived by niece, nephew and members of her community, The Sisters of St. Joseph. Religious, relatives and friends invited to Viewing Wednesday, 1:30 P.M., followed by Funeral Mass, 3 P.M., at St. Joseph Villa, 110 W. Wissahickon Ave., Flourtown PA 19031. Int. Villa Cemetery. Donations in Sister's name to St. Joseph Villa would be appreciated. KOLLER FUNERAL HOME
Philadelphia Inquirer, May 2, 2010
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Sister Charles Consilli Anderson, beloved Sister of St. Joseph died at St. Joseph Villa on April 29, 2010. Her Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at St. Joseph Villa on May 5th.
Sister Charles was born on February 8, 1930 in Bridgeton, NJ to Kathryn and Charles Anderson; she was the youngest of four daughters. Carolyn, Sister Charles, was baptized in Immaculate Conception Church and later attended the parish school through the eighth grade. After graduating from Bridgeton High School, she studied nursing at Misericordia School of Nursing; she graduated from the school in 1950 with an R.N. degree.
Sister Charles thought seriously about becoming a Sister of St. Joseph while in her senior year at Misericordia; however, this was not to happen immediately. Her mother was diagnosed with cancer about this time and S. Charles certainly felt she should stay with her mother to help her. She did this and also practiced nursing at Bridgeton Hospital. Her mother died in January of 1951. Later that year, she talked with her father about going to Chestnut Hill to make application to become an SSJ; he was aware that she intended to do this because her mother had told him about it before she died. Despite the fact that he was not a catholic and that her leaving would leave him alone (the older girls were married and were living elsewhere), he agreed that she should follow her heart.
Sister. Charles traveled to Chestnut Hill via public transportation to keep her appointment with Mother Marie Estelle; after the appointment she met her dad at the Flower Show in Convention Center in Philly. Until the end of her life, the annual Flower Show had had fond and meaningful memories for her.
Sister Charles entered the novitiate in September of 1951. When it came time to choose a name, she realized that all of the combinations of Carolyn and Charles had been used. Because she prayed to Our Mother of Good Counsel each day in Nursing School so that she would know how to help her patients, she asked to be given some form of this title of Our Lady. Coupled with her father's name, was the Latin, Consilii: thus, Sister Charles Consilii. Fortunately, she had told her dad about her plan to take his name because he died very suddenly at age 60 of a heart attack. This happened two weeks before she received the habit of the Sisters of St. Joseph.
After her canonical year, she was assigned to the Community Infirmary, on the third floor of the Motherhouse, which was equipped for skilled care, including an operating room. In 1954, changes occurred. St. Joseph Villa in Cheltenham had been utilized as a facility for sisters with tuberculosis; at this time it was used as a home for sick or elderly sisters. One of the sister nurses died suddenly and it fell upon the four nurses at the Infirmary to step into the picture. The schedule involved a month of duty working at Cheltenham on the second floor, on a rotating basis. This lasted for fourteen years.
The biggest change came in 1968, with the opening of St. Joseph Villa in Flourtown. About those first days, Sister Charles said, the nurses' duties were maintenance, housekeeping, dietary, and nursing. They even carried the meals to the patients, and washed the dishes.
All of this information was gleaned by Sister Marion Aherne in an interview with Sister Charles in August of 2001. How fortunate was it that the interview took place! Well beyond facts, however, lie the spirit and heart of Sister Charles Consilli. It was her heart and spirit that manifested themselves in her peaceful, loving, gentle, generous manner. It was not only her skills as nurse that promoted healing, ; it was also, and indeed, her loving, caring manner with her patients.
Sister Anne Meyer said it well, "Hers was a life lived in gentle union with the God of her heart. Through [her] gentle, selfless, peaceable manner, [she has] quietly distinguished [herself ]as one of the great women of our Congregation."
Source:
http://www.ssjphila.org/Archivelst.htm
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SISTER CHARLES CONSILII ANDERSON, SSJ CAROLINE, April 29, 2010, age 80. Sister of Katherine Applegate (Norman) and the late Dorothy Post (Bergen) and Alberta Poles (Fred); also survived by niece, nephew and members of her community, The Sisters of St. Joseph. Religious, relatives and friends invited to Viewing Wednesday, 1:30 P.M., followed by Funeral Mass, 3 P.M., at St. Joseph Villa, 110 W. Wissahickon Ave., Flourtown PA 19031. Int. Villa Cemetery. Donations in Sister's name to St. Joseph Villa would be appreciated. KOLLER FUNERAL HOME
Philadelphia Inquirer, May 2, 2010
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Sister Charles Consilli Anderson, beloved Sister of St. Joseph died at St. Joseph Villa on April 29, 2010. Her Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at St. Joseph Villa on May 5th.
Sister Charles was born on February 8, 1930 in Bridgeton, NJ to Kathryn and Charles Anderson; she was the youngest of four daughters. Carolyn, Sister Charles, was baptized in Immaculate Conception Church and later attended the parish school through the eighth grade. After graduating from Bridgeton High School, she studied nursing at Misericordia School of Nursing; she graduated from the school in 1950 with an R.N. degree.
Sister Charles thought seriously about becoming a Sister of St. Joseph while in her senior year at Misericordia; however, this was not to happen immediately. Her mother was diagnosed with cancer about this time and S. Charles certainly felt she should stay with her mother to help her. She did this and also practiced nursing at Bridgeton Hospital. Her mother died in January of 1951. Later that year, she talked with her father about going to Chestnut Hill to make application to become an SSJ; he was aware that she intended to do this because her mother had told him about it before she died. Despite the fact that he was not a catholic and that her leaving would leave him alone (the older girls were married and were living elsewhere), he agreed that she should follow her heart.
Sister. Charles traveled to Chestnut Hill via public transportation to keep her appointment with Mother Marie Estelle; after the appointment she met her dad at the Flower Show in Convention Center in Philly. Until the end of her life, the annual Flower Show had had fond and meaningful memories for her.
Sister Charles entered the novitiate in September of 1951. When it came time to choose a name, she realized that all of the combinations of Carolyn and Charles had been used. Because she prayed to Our Mother of Good Counsel each day in Nursing School so that she would know how to help her patients, she asked to be given some form of this title of Our Lady. Coupled with her father's name, was the Latin, Consilii: thus, Sister Charles Consilii. Fortunately, she had told her dad about her plan to take his name because he died very suddenly at age 60 of a heart attack. This happened two weeks before she received the habit of the Sisters of St. Joseph.
After her canonical year, she was assigned to the Community Infirmary, on the third floor of the Motherhouse, which was equipped for skilled care, including an operating room. In 1954, changes occurred. St. Joseph Villa in Cheltenham had been utilized as a facility for sisters with tuberculosis; at this time it was used as a home for sick or elderly sisters. One of the sister nurses died suddenly and it fell upon the four nurses at the Infirmary to step into the picture. The schedule involved a month of duty working at Cheltenham on the second floor, on a rotating basis. This lasted for fourteen years.
The biggest change came in 1968, with the opening of St. Joseph Villa in Flourtown. About those first days, Sister Charles said, the nurses' duties were maintenance, housekeeping, dietary, and nursing. They even carried the meals to the patients, and washed the dishes.
All of this information was gleaned by Sister Marion Aherne in an interview with Sister Charles in August of 2001. How fortunate was it that the interview took place! Well beyond facts, however, lie the spirit and heart of Sister Charles Consilli. It was her heart and spirit that manifested themselves in her peaceful, loving, gentle, generous manner. It was not only her skills as nurse that promoted healing, ; it was also, and indeed, her loving, caring manner with her patients.
Sister Anne Meyer said it well, "Hers was a life lived in gentle union with the God of her heart. Through [her] gentle, selfless, peaceable manner, [she has] quietly distinguished [herself ]as one of the great women of our Congregation."
Source:
http://www.ssjphila.org/Archivelst.htm
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SISTER CHARLES CONSILII ANDERSON, SSJ CAROLINE, April 29, 2010, age 80. Sister of Katherine Applegate (Norman) and the late Dorothy Post (Bergen) and Alberta Poles (Fred); also survived by niece, nephew and members of her community, The Sisters of St. Joseph. Religious, relatives and friends invited to Viewing Wednesday, 1:30 P.M., followed by Funeral Mass, 3 P.M., at St. Joseph Villa, 110 W. Wissahickon Ave., Flourtown PA 19031. Int. Villa Cemetery. Donations in Sister's name to St. Joseph Villa would be appreciated. KOLLER FUNERAL HOME
Philadelphia Inquirer, May 2, 2010
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