Sinsinawa Dominican Sister Elizabeth “Liz” (Valerian) Barribeau, 96, died Feb. 3 in Hazel Green, Wisconsin.

Born in Wisconsin, Sister Liz made her first religious profession as a Sinsinawa Dominican in 1944 and spent 18 years with the congregation before transferring her religious vows to the Mount St. Mary’s Abbey of Trappist nuns in Wrentham, Massachusetts, who in 1964 established a new foundation — Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey — near Dubuque, Iowa.

Sister Liz became a foundress of that congregation, then returned to the Sinsinawa congregation in 1985. She made her perpetual profession with the Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa in 1988.

Sister Liz ministered in education and pastoral ministry in Illinois, Minnesota, Alabama, Iowa, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New York and Florida.

In the Archdiocese of Chicago, Sister Liz taught at St. Sabina (1944-1947) and St. Mary, Evanston (1947-1949).

She is survived by two brothers, James and William Barribeau.