Sacred Heart Sister Barbara Cooper, 87
July 29, 2019 at 12:37 p.m.
A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Sept. 11 in Teresian House Chapel, Albany, N.Y., for Sacred Heart Sister Barbara Cooper, who died Sept. 5 at age 87.
Sister Barbara was known in the Trenton Diocese having taught in Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, Princeton, from 1974 to 1980.
Born in New York City in 1922, Sister Barbara earned a bachelor’s degree in school music with a minor in psychology and a master’s degree in English from Manhattan College, Purchase, N.Y., and another master’s degree in librarianship from Columbia University, N.Y.
Sister Barbara joined the Religious of the Sacred Heart in 1944 at the Kenwood novitiate in Albany. She made her final profession of vows in 1953 in Via Nomentana in Rome.
In addition to teaching in Princeton as well as in Noroton and Greenwich, Conn., Sister Barbara taught Latin and religion in Woldingham, England, and served as reference librarian in Newton College, Boston, Mass.
From November, 1996, to September, 2007, she was a literacy educator at the Somerset County Jail in New Jersey. She had also been active with the Institute on Sacred Scripture at Misericordia College, Dallas, Pa., and the Biblical Institute at Trinity College, Burlington, Vt.
Sister Barbara traveled extensively and, in 1984-1985, studied at a language school in Sweden. She was fluent in French and comfortable with Spanish, Swedish and Latin.
Sister Barbara is survived by two cousins.
Burial was in the Kenwood Convent Cemetery.
Memorial donations may be made to the Society of the Sacred Heart, 4120 Forest Ave., St. Louis, MO 63108.
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A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Sept. 11 in Teresian House Chapel, Albany, N.Y., for Sacred Heart Sister Barbara Cooper, who died Sept. 5 at age 87.
Sister Barbara was known in the Trenton Diocese having taught in Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, Princeton, from 1974 to 1980.
Born in New York City in 1922, Sister Barbara earned a bachelor’s degree in school music with a minor in psychology and a master’s degree in English from Manhattan College, Purchase, N.Y., and another master’s degree in librarianship from Columbia University, N.Y.
Sister Barbara joined the Religious of the Sacred Heart in 1944 at the Kenwood novitiate in Albany. She made her final profession of vows in 1953 in Via Nomentana in Rome.
In addition to teaching in Princeton as well as in Noroton and Greenwich, Conn., Sister Barbara taught Latin and religion in Woldingham, England, and served as reference librarian in Newton College, Boston, Mass.
From November, 1996, to September, 2007, she was a literacy educator at the Somerset County Jail in New Jersey. She had also been active with the Institute on Sacred Scripture at Misericordia College, Dallas, Pa., and the Biblical Institute at Trinity College, Burlington, Vt.
Sister Barbara traveled extensively and, in 1984-1985, studied at a language school in Sweden. She was fluent in French and comfortable with Spanish, Swedish and Latin.
Sister Barbara is survived by two cousins.
Burial was in the Kenwood Convent Cemetery.
Memorial donations may be made to the Society of the Sacred Heart, 4120 Forest Ave., St. Louis, MO 63108.
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