SISTER MARY E. McCLORY, formerly Sister John Agnes, age 95, died at Caritas Christi, the motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill in Greensburg, on November 2, 2012. A native of Pittsburgh, Sister Mary entered the congregation on September 8, 1934 from Resurrection Parish, Brookline, PA. Preceded in death by her parents, John F. and Agnes M. (Rogan) McClory, a brother, John A. McClory, a sister, Margaret McClory, infant twin brother and sister, and cousins Sisters M. Augustine McClory, SC and M. Josephine McClory, SC, she is survived by nephews, David and Robert McClory. She earned a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in education from Duquesne University and was a teacher and administrator in schools of the Pittsburgh Diocese and the Archdiocese of Washington. In 1940, Sister Mary was assigned to teach at the De Paul School for Hearing and Speech, where she remained until 1956, when she began ministry at Saint Jane de Chantal School in Bethesda, MD, first as teacher, 1956-1959, and then as principal, 1959-1965. In 1965, Sister Mary began a12-year tenure as curriculum director and then as associate director for elementary education in the Diocese of Greensburg. In 1977, she was elected a general councilor for the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill and served in that capacity until 1981, when she became a co-director of Saint Thomas More Manor, a senior citizen high rise under the auspices of Christian Housing in the Diocese of Pittsburgh. From 1986 until her retirement in 2000, Sister Mary served as a “Minister of Care” at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in Scottsdale, Az., where she took love, care, compassion and companionship to the sick and needy. Of her life as a Sister of Charity, Sister Mary said, “Every day is a new beginning. Every day is a venture for Christ. I thank God for calling me to religious life and I am grateful to my family and the Sisters of Charity who educated, encouraged and supported me.”
