Sinsinawa Dominican Sister Geraldine “Geri” Hoye, 83, died May 4 in Hazel Green, Wisconsin.

Born in Chicago, she made her first profession as a School Sister of Saint Francis of Christ the King of Lemont in 1957 and her perpetual profession in 1962. She served as a teacher and principal before transferring her vows to the Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa in 1990. Sister Geri remained in education administration for another three years before moving into parish ministries for the next 23 years.

Sister Geri served in Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Louisiana, Mississippi and Kentucky.

In the Archdiocese of Chicago, Sister Geri taught at St. George (Ewing Street) (1957-1961); Holy Trinity (1961-1962) and St. Stephen (1967-1969).

Father Thomas A. Tivy, 84, died April 25. He was pastor emeritus of Resurrection Parish.

Born in Chicago, he attended Quigley Preparatory Seminary and the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary in Mundelein before being ordained in 1962.

He was assistant pastor of St. Lambert, Skokie, and St. Hilary Parish and associate pastor of St. Gregory the Great and St. Sylvester. He was pastor of Our Lady of Grace and Resurrection, and he was named pastor emeritus of Resurrection in 2009.

In addition to his parochial assignments, Father Tivy served as judicial vicar, vicar for clergy, dean and member of the Priest Personnel Board.

Father Lawrence Gorski, former associate pastor at St. Mary Parish in Buffalo Grove, was mentored by Father Tivy before he was ordained a priest. Gorski and Father Tivy became lifelong friends after that first year of mentorship.

“He was a priest to the priests,” Gorski said. “He always cared and looked out for us. He was very sensitive to people’s difficulties and went out of his way to help people.”

Sister of the Living Word Elaine Josephine Tworek, 80, died March 31.

Born in Nebraska, Sister Elaine was a teacher and principal at many schools, including St. Thecla (1961-1962, 1978-1980); St. Casimir (1962-1963); St. Mary of the Angels (1963-1965); Resurrection High School (1965-1973, 1980-1988); Queen of the Rosary, Elk Grove Village (1973-1978); and St. Joseph High School, Westchester (1988-1994).

She also was the coordinator of ministry for the Sisters of the Living Word (1998-2002) and a pastoral minister in South Dakota.

Sister Elaine is survived by her sister, Dorothy Greene, and her brothers, Marc and Jim Tworek.

Columban Father Gerald Peter “Jerry” Wilmsen, 86, died on April 6 in Bristol, Rhode Island.   

Born in Chicago, he was baptized at St. Basil and attended parochial schools before entering Quigley Preparatory Seminary in 1948.

He transferred to St. Columban’s Seminary in Silver Creek, New York, for his three remaining years of high school, after hearing a mission talk from a Columban priest.

He was ordained in 1959 and celebrated his first Mass at St. Richard Church.

He ministered in South Korea, then did vocation work while living at the Korean Center in Chicago before returning to Korea.

In 1988, he responded to a call for volunteers to teach in China. After language school, he spent most of the next decade teaching at universities in Wuhan and Guangzhou. He returned to the United States in 2000 and lived outside Hayward, Wisconsin, until deciding in 2015 to move to St. Columban’s House in Bristol.

He is survived by his brother, Lee Wilmsen.

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).