Sister Mary Margaret Schutz was founder of the Detroit-based Home Visitors of Mary, a religious order of sisters. Her religious order, now consisting of 26 sisters living in Detroit and Nigeria, lives on, as does her legacy of bringing God's Word to the people of Detroit. The Home Visitors of Mary, founded on November 21,1949, was a result of Sr. Schutz's lay ministry. In the late 1930s and 1940s, she taught catechism at St. Peter Claver Parish, and made door-to-door visits in the neighborhoods around St. Benedict the Moor, Our Lady of Victory, and Holy Ghost parishes in Detroit. She had a passion for reading and teaching the Gospels. Her ministry was focused on reaching out to the city neighborhoods and bringing Christ into the neighborhoods. In 1949 Cardinal Edward Mooney agreed to sponsor the religious order based on Sr. Schutz's personalized ministry. After she stepped down as Mother Superior of the Home Visitors of Mary in 1973, she became a pastoral minister at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Sister was ahead of her time in getting laypeople to be more involved in faith formation. In her ministry as a laywoman, she was very involved in the lay movement, and fostering lay people was one of the calls of her community.

Sr. Schutz retired in 2003, two years after the Home Visitors of Mary started a mission in Nigeria. She lived at the HVM convent in Detroit, near the cathedral. She was 93 years old. She leaves one sister, Rita (Aloysius) O'Mara and many nieces and nephews.

Prior to the founding of her order, Sister managed the VanAntwerp Library, now the Catholic Book Store, in downtown Detroit.

A wake service and viewing was held at Cole's Funeral Home, 2624 W. Grand Blvd., Detroit, on Friday, Dec. 21, 2007.
Her funeral Mass was celebrated at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament by Msgr. James Robinson, former rector at the Cathedral, at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, December 22, 2007.