2024 Jubiliarian
“I always wanted to be a teacher,” Sister Dolores (Immaculate) Partsch says, citing her Mom, Mary, as her inspiration, and later, Sister Ruth Colaianne, “God’s gift to the universe,” and her seventh grade teacher. She recalls helping educate her siblings as a child and being profoundly influenced by the joyfulness of the Catholic Sisters who taught her in elementary school.
After beginning her ministry in education in 1957 at Annunciation in Pittsburgh, Sister Dolores served for three decades both as a teacher and principal in the Columbus, Pittsburgh, and Altoona-Johnstown Dioceses before transitioning into pastoral care in 1987.
Focusing on the spiritual formation of adults, with a desire “to help them come to know Jesus as a person,” Sister Dolores delighted in forming new friendships during her time in the South (1993-2001) where she served in Parsons, TN, and Iuka, MS.
She’s grateful for the love and support of her family, who gave her “a lot of strength and encouragement” and for the chance “to live out our charism by being a woman of service.”
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