OBITUARY: Sister Magdalene, teacher and prefect (10/14/01)

OBITUARY: Sister Magdalene, teacher and prefect

JENKINTOWN, Pa. - Sister Magdalene Komanowsky died on September 25, in the 89th year of her life, at Nazareth Hospital. She was a resident of Mary Immaculate Nursing Home.

Sister Magdalene, a native of Williamstown, N.J., and daughter of the late Alexander and Techla Pawluk, entered the Sisters of St. Basil the Great on August 15, 1930. At the time of sister's entrance to the community she lived in Chester, Pa., and was a member of Holy Ghost Parish. Her final profession of vows took place on August 8, 1940.

During her years in the Basilian community sister taught in the parish schools in Cleveland, Chicago, New Kensington, Pa., Watervliet, N.Y., Hamtramck, Mich., Newark, N.J., Auburn, N.Y., Olyphant, Pa., Yonkers, N.Y., Syracuse, N.Y., and Northampton, Pa. Most of sister's community ministry was to serve at St. Basil Orphanage on Lindley Avenue in Philadelphia as both teacher and prefect.

After retiring to the motherhouse in 1990 Sister Magdelene continued to teach religion at the Ukrainian Saturday school at the Ukrainian Cultural Center on Cedar Road until 1997.

Sister is survived by two sisters - Sister Sebastian and Joan DeSilvis; two brothers - Michael and Walter and her sister-in-law Mary; as well as several nieces and nephews.

Parastas services were held in the Sister's Chapel at the Basilian Motherhouse on September 26 with the sisters' chaplain, the Rev. Michael Rozmarynowycz, as the main celebrant.

A funeral divine liturgy was sung on Thursday, September 27, in the Holy Trinity Chapel of the Sisters of St. Basil the Great. The Rev. Rozmarynowycz officiated. Sister Dorothy Ann Busowski OSBM, provincial, delivered the eulogy. Interment followed in the sisters' cemetery.

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