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Sister Dean Elizabeth Traynor: 1914 - 2008
Longtime worker at Barat
By Deborah Horan | Tribune staff reporter
Below is the beginning of the obiturary printed in the Chicago Tribune on March 18, 2008.
For the entire article, visit the Chicago Tribune's website. |
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Sister Dean Elizabeth Traynor, RSCJ, often let her pet parakeet, Patrick, out of the cage in her office at Barat College in Lake Forest, allowing the colorful bird to perch on her nun's habit and sometimes on the heads of visiting students or faculty.
"She would let him out, and he'd fly around the room," said Sister Martha Curry, who lived and worked with Sister Traynor at the college. "She loved having pets. She had several cats at home."
Sister Traynor, 93, a member of the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus religious order, died Tuesday, March 11, of natural causes in the Teresian House retirement facility run by the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm in Albany, N.Y.
Born in Chicago's Beverly neighborhood to a prominent businessman who was president of the school board in Chicago and a homemaker who once panned for gold out West, Sister Traynor entered the Society of the Sacred Heart in 1933 after graduating from high school at the Academy of the Sacred Heart on Chicago's North Side. She received her bachelor's degree in 1936 from Barat and that year began teaching elementary and high school students at the academy. Click link above for entire article
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Please join us and other Sheridan Road Alums for
a Mass
to celebrate the life of Dean Traynor, rscj
Sunday, May 4th at 10:00
Sacred Heart Schools - Chapel
6250 N. Sheridan Road
(parking available in school lots, 6250 N. Sheridan and 6215 N. Kenmore)
Reception to follow
RSVP for the Mass: memorialrsvp@shschicago.org |
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