Obituary: Sister Catherine Vincent, S.C., 78
Sister Catherine Vincent, a Sister of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, died May 20, 2021 at the Villa, in Florham Park, N.J. She was 78.
Sister Catherine was born in Orange, N.J., the daughter of Francis and Catherine (Kinnealy)Vincent. She entered the Sisters of Charity on Sept. 6, 1964 and was a member for 56 of years.
She graduated from the then College of Saint Elizabeth, Convent Station, N.J. with a B.A. Degree in Mathematics and from the University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio with an M.A. in Mathematics.
Sister Catherine was a gifted and dedicated educator in New Jersey. She loved teaching and witnessing students’ learning at every age. She served as a teacher in Bayley Ellard High School in Madison, Immaculate Conception High School in Montclair, and Saint Joseph’s Regional High School in Montvale. After teaching high school, she applied her math knowledge as a Data and Project Coordinator in Saint Joseph’s Regional Medical Center, Paterson for 15 years and concluded her time there as an executive assistant.
She was predeceased by her sister Jacqueline Burns and her husband, three nephews and one niece.
She is survived by the Sisters of Charity; and a devoted family of two sisters, Maureen Waters, and Beth Kelly and one brother, Frank Vincent, two brothers-in-law, David Kelly and Albert Waters and a sister-in-law, Charlotte Vincent and many nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews.
