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Sr. Jenny VandenBergh
School Sister of Notre Dame Jenny (Mary August) VandenBergh, 91, died July 20, 2020, in New Lenox.
Born in Evanston, she was a member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame for 70 years. She served in Illinois and Wisconsin as grade school teacher and principal, manager for Catholic Charities, pastoral minister at Resurrection Life Center and minister of prayer and presence at Marian Village.
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Sr. Margaret Ann Curtin
School Sister of Notre Dame Margaret Ann Curtin, 93, died March 22, 2020, at Resurrection Life Center.
Born in Chicago, she was a member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame for 72 years.
She served in Wisconsin and Illinois as a grade and high school teacher, local leader, provincial councilor, school secretary, volunteer at Misericordia Home, province development staff member and minister of prayer and presence at Marian Village, Homer Glen, and Resurrection Life Center.
She is survived by her siblings, School Sisters of Notre Dame Joan Marie and Susan Marie Curtin, Michael Curtin, Dennis Curtin and Margaret Healy.
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Sr. Joanna Brigan
School Sister of Notre Dame Joanna Brigan, 87, died Aug, 27 at Marian Village in Homer Glen.
Born in Chicago, she was a member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame for 67 years. She served in Wisconsin and Illinois in dietary service, food service, housekeeping and hospitality, and in the ministry of prayer and presence at Marian Village.
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Sr. Mary Bann
School Sister of Notre Dame Mary Bann, 79, died March 28, 2020, at Resurrection Life Center.
She was a member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame for 60 years, and she served in Illinois and Missouri as a grade school teacher, student, postulant director and assistant director of religious education, and she did community service at Marian Village in Homer Glen, and then ministry of prayer and presence at Marian Village and finally at Resurrection Life Center.
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Deacon Anthony Towey
Deacon Anthony John Towey, 79, died Feb. 22. He was ordained in 2003 and served at St. Stephen Protomartyr Parish, Des Plaines.
Deacon Towey loved to travel and had visited all 50 United States as well as Ireland. He was an avid performer in the St. Stephen variety shows for almost 30 years.
He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Patricia Connolly; his children Elizabeth Beasley, Kathryn Szamocki, Anthony Towey, Teresa Cook and John Towey; 19 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
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