Reflections Magazine Issue #61 - Spring 2004 | Page 26
Class Notes
Georgita Horger, OP ’42 died July 1,
2003, at the Dominican Life Center. She
was 91. She enjoyed 28 years working in
elementary education in Illinois, Michigan
and Ohio. She also ministered in special
education in Detroit and was coordinator/
supervisor at the Child Appraisal Center
in the ‘70s.
Patricia Dorrian Sandbothe ’47 of
Northville died Oct. 26, 2003, at the
age of 78. A former high school English
teacher in Davison and Northville, Pat
was an active volunteer at the Providence Hospital Cancer Center and the
Detroit Institute of Art where she served
as a docent.
Marie Arlene Berg, OP ’43 died Nov.
27, 2003, at the age of 93. She spent
49 years ministering in education in
Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Florida and New
Mexico.
Anne Ledwidge Neidhamer ’48 died
June 28, 2003. She taught kindergarten
for 21 years in the Detroit area. She married Byron Neidhamer in 1971 and raised
three children; her husband and children
survive.
Margaret Denis Knight, OP ’43 died
Sept. 2, 2003, at the age of 91. She was
in the 71st year of religious profession.
Sister spent 48 years ministering in
education in Michigan and Illinois. She
volunteered at the St. Rita Convent in
Chicago from 1981 to 1995, when she
retired and came to the Dominican Life
Center.
Marie Urban Schwartz OP ’48 passed
away Sept. 8, 2003, at the age of 81. She
was a teacher and school administrator
for 27 years in Detroit and Chicago. She
earned a master’s degree in special education and ministered as head teacher
for the deaf at St. Mel Holy Ghost School
in Chicago. She served as administrator
of Maria Health Care Center in Adrian in
Marie Brigid McDonald O.P. ’45 (forthe 1970s and in the finance office in
merly Mary Alice McDonald), 80, died
the ’80s. She became a resident of the
Jan. 5 in Santa Cruz, Calif. In 1946, after
Dominican Life Center in 1988.
graduating from Siena, she entered the
Adrian Dominican Sisters. After further Maud (Mardi) Goudswaardt DeLardi
study, she began an accomplished ’51 died July 16, 2003, in Westport,
career in nursing that included long ser- Conn., after a battle with inflammatory
vice at both St. Rose de Lima Hospital in breast cancer. She was active in her
Henderson, Nev., where she served 12 church as well as “Right to Life.” Her
years in various clinical and administra- book, “Seeds of Thorns,” is in the protive capacities, and Dominican Santa cess of being published. Mardi leaves
Cruz (Calif.) Hospital where she was her husband, Albert, daug