Remembering Sister Patricia Mitchell, OSF

In mid-June, 2023, Sister Pat was happily welcoming visitors to the new home she had moved to early in the year as Our Lady of Angels was preparing to close. Along with Sisters Ann Freiburg and Mary Agnes Cross, she was the first to arrive at Heritage Woods Assisted Living in Minooka, Illinois. They would soon be followed by others. The visitor’s Pat was so happy to see in June were the many Sisters arriving from out of town for the annual community week of meetings, missioning, and Jubilee celebrations. She was as eager to show them her new home as they were to see it. Always smiling and always hospitable…that was Pat.

Soon after those meetings, a sudden visit to the hospital for tests revealed that Pat had a malignant tumor pressing on her lungs. She entered into hospice care, lost the ability to speak, was anointed and moved from a hospice facility to Ascension Villa Franciscan Place, and died on the morning of July 18, 2023…a rapid transition from welcoming others to being welcomed home to heaven.

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