Yolo-San Francisco County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....GORMAN, Catherine Patricia  January 7 2002
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“The Daily Democrat,” Wednesday, January 16, 2002
Sister Maria Ave (Catherine Patricia Gorman) CSC 

Sister Maria Ave (Catherine Patricia Gorman) CSC died Monday, Jan. 7, 2002, at
age 86.

Born Jan. 8, 1915, in San Francisco, to the late John F. Gorman and Alice
McManus Gorman. Sister Maria Ave and her sister Elnora were raised in Yolo
County. She spent 54 years as an elementary teacher and all of those years were
in the West: Utah, California, Idaho and Arizona. She taught mathematics in the
middle grades and then, in 1974, was a tutor in Stella Maris School, La Jolla. 
Following her teaching career, Sister Maria Ave was active in pastoral ministry
to the elderly in Utah and California. In 1991, she retired to Saint Cathedral
by the Sea and in 1999 came to Saint Mary's Convent, Notre Dame, Indiana. Sister
Maria Ave was active in the Ministry of Prayer until her death.

Sister Maria Ave is survived by her nieces, Susan Torguson of Davis and Nancy
Scann of Danville; nephew, Charles E. Daily of Granite Bay; and numerous
great-nieces; great-nephews; and cousins.

A reception and wake was held Thursday, Jan. 10, at Church of Loretto, Saint
Mary's Notre Dame, Ind.

Sister Maria Ave was preceded in death by her sisters, Bernice Gravelle of Chico
and Elnora Daily of Woodland.

A funeral service was conducted Friday, Jan. 11, also at Church of Loretto,
Saint Mary's Notre Dame, Ind.

The family requests memorials be directed to Sisters of the Holy Cross Ministry
with the Poor Fund, Saint Mary's, Notre Dame, Ind., 46556.

Kanieweski Funeral Home of South Bend, Ind., assisted the family with
arrangements.


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Submitted with the permission of the “The Daily Democrat,” 711 Main St.,
Woodland, CA 95695

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