Warden obituaries, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana 

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Warden, Waldia Ann        29 Aug 2013    Sep 2013    Jerry Nelson

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Obituary published in The Advocate (Baton Rouge) on:  8/29/2013

WARDEN, WALDIA ANN
Dominican Sister of Peace Waldia Ann (Mary Assumpta) Warden, OP, died in 
Columbus, Ohio, on Sunday, August 18, 2013. She was born in New Orleans on 
January 15, 1933. Sr. Waldia was preceded in death by her parents, Walter 
Emmer and Lydia Eugenie (LeBlanc) Warden, and her nephew Mickie Retif. She 
is survived by a sister and brother-in-law, Phyllis and Milton Retif; 
nieces Danielle Barbara and Lisa James; nephew Kenneth Retif; as well as 
grandnieces and grandnephews. She entered the Novitiate of the former 
Dominican Sisters of St. Mary in New Orleans in 1953 and made her 
Profession of Vows in 1954. Sr. Waldia ministered on the General Council of 
the St. Mary New Orleans congregation for four terms (1976-84, 1996-2004); 
as President of St. Mary's Dominican College in New Orleans (1983-85); and 
as President of St. Mary's Dominican High School in New Orleans (1990-94). 
Sr. Waldia earned an MS in Dietetics from St. Louis University and a JCL in 
Canon Law from the Catholic University of America. She ministered at 
parochial elementary schools in Louisiana (1954-62); as a professor at St. 
Mary's Dominican College in New Orleans (1964-1979); in the Metropolitan 
Tribunal of New Orleans (1989-2005); and as Director at Rosaryville Spirit 
Life Center in Ponchatoula, LA (1979-81,2005-08). She was a resident 
volunteer at the Columbus Motherhouse before entering Mohun Health Care 
Center in 2012. The wake and funeral Mass took place in August at the 
Columbus Motherhouse of the Dominican Sisters of Peace. A Memorial Mass 
will be celebrated locally at St. John the Baptist Church in New Orleans on 
Thursday, September 5 at 10:00am, followed by interment of her ashes at the 
Dominican Sisters' cemetery at Rosaryville, Ponchatoula. Memorial gifts in 
Sr. Waldia's memory may be sent to Dominican Sisters of Peace, 2320 Airport 
Dr, Columbus, OH 43219 or submitted securely at www.oppeace.org. 

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