Providence Sister Mary Patricia (Mary Janice) Cummings, 96, died April 12 in St. Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana.  

Sister Mary Pat entered the Sisters of Providence in 1942 and professed final vows in 1949. In her 79 years as a Sister of Providence, she ministered as a teacher and principal and as a pastoral associate in Illinois, Indiana, Maryland and Washington, D.C.

In the Archdiocese of Chicago, she taught at St. Sylvester (1944-1948) and St. Genevieve (1959-1961) and was a pastoral associate at Immaculate Conception (1985-2000).