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