Maryknoll, NY:
Sister Patricia Redmond died on April 3, 2025 at the Maryknoll Sisters Center, Maryknoll, NY. She was 93 years old and a Maryknoll Sister for 75 years.
On January 24, 1932, Cecelia Joyce Redmond was born in Cincinnati, OH to Elizabeth True Redmond and Matthew Redmond. She had one brother, James; her niece, Jill Buschmann, survives her.
From 1945 -1949, Sister Pat attended Seton High School in Cincinnati. She studied for one semester in Mt. St. Joseph College leaving in February 1950. Sister Pat received her Bachelor of Education from Maryknoll Teachers College in 1955.
She entered the Maryknoll Sisters at Maryknoll, NY on September 6, 1950 from Holy Family parish in Cincinnati. She pronounced her First Profession of Vows on March 7, 1953 in Maryknoll, NY and her Final Vows on March 7, 1959 in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Sister Pat was assigned to Bolivia to study Spanish in Cochabamba before beginning her years of teaching and leadership in various schools in Lima (1956), Montero (1959), and Cochabamba (1962). She was an exceptionally creative teacher and a wise and kind principal. In 1970, she was assigned to Colonia Hardeman, a village of people who were relocated because of flooding.
In January 1984, Sister Pat returned to the States for her leadership skills, first in the Office of Social Concerns, then service on the Central Governing Board as General Secretary. Her precise mind and attention to detail was a source of amazement. She was wise and compassionate and could defuse tension with humor, or even a clever cartoon.\
When her term ended in 1991, Sister Pat moved on to a new and exciting assignment in Papua, New Guinea with Sisters Peggy Dawson and Helen Gleason in Vanimo, Papua. It was a challenging and rewarding mission–pastoral work, vocational training and pre-school classes. Theological issues with the Bishop, and the age and health of the sisters ended the mission in 1995.
Called again to the Latin world, Pat returned in 1996 to pastoral work and women’s formation in Guatemala until her return to the Center in 2006. For a time, she worked in Creative Productions in the development department. However, gradually, Pat’s fine mind moved into the illness that brought her to the Eden community in June 2012.
Even though Pat has left us, her art and her humor and her calligraphy remain with us—from bumper stickers about HIV-AIDS in Guatemala, to many signs and names around this house. We remember too, with varying degrees of affection, that she loved animals and connected with them, especially cats!
Funeral Services:
A Vespers Service will be held for Sister Patricia Redmon on Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 4:15 p.m. in the Chapel of the Annunciation at the Maryknoll Sisters Center, Maryknoll, NY.
A Memorial Mass will be held on Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 10:00 A.M. at the Maryknoll Sisters Center.