SISTER FRANCIS TERESA MASUR, SC, age 98, died at Caritas Christi, the motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill in Greensburg, on July 20. A Pittsburgh native, Sister Francis Teresa entered the congregation of the Sisters of Charity on September 8, 1937, from Resurrection Parish in Brookline. Preceded in death by her parents, Frank and Mae (McKenna) Masur, three brothers Frank, Jack and Brother James Masur, SM, and two sisters Mrs. Teresa (Roy) Owens, and Mrs. Dorothy (Neil) Szuminsky, and a cousin, Sister Dorothy Marie Quigley, SC., she is survived by a brother, Bill Masur and a sister, Mrs. Mary (Charles) Wertz, nieces and nephews. She earned a bachelor’s degree in social studies and a master’s degree in secondary education from Duquesne University. Sister Francis Teresa taught students of the junior and senior high school level in schools of the dioceses of Altoona-Johnstown, Greensburg, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Tucson and the Archdiocese of Washington. Her longest tenure, 1975-1989, was at Saint Jane de Chantal School in Bethesda, MD. From 1991 until 1999, Sister Francis Teresa tutored students in mathematics at Allegheny County Community College. After she retired from teaching, she volunteered her services as convent sacristan and eucharistic minister for the Elizabeth Seton Center in Brookline. She retired to Caritas Christi in 2007. Petite, prayerful and precise, Sister Francis Teresa believed the words spoken by St. Elizabeth Seton, “To correspond to the grace of the moment means a wonderful union between you and God all day.”
