School Sister of Notre Dame Gloria (Maria Elvira) Rosales, 96, died Dec. 4 at Resurrection Life Center from COVID-19.

Born in Chicago, she later recalled her mother telling her how she went all day at the 1926 Eucharistic Congress “without a whimper,” even though she was only 2 years old.

She attended Sancta Maria Incoronata School, and every day after class she taught her Mexican-born parents the English she had learned in school.

She professed first vows in 1943 and final vows in 1949.

Sister Gloria served as a primary, kindergarten and early childhood teacher in Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois, including at St. Ambrose and St. Margaret of Scotland.

She was a school administrator and counselor in Illinois, and she worked in special education at Nipper School in Park Ridge (1973-1978). 

Sister Gloria retired to Marian Village in Homer Glen in 2007 and in 2020 she moved to Resurrection Life Center.