LEWISTON – Sister Mae Doucette, 91, died on Wednesday, Dec. 24, at the St. Mary’s d’Youville Pavilion, where she had been a patient for the past five years.

She was born on May 30, 1917, in Chisholm (Jay), the daughter of Joseph James and Laura (Pineau) Doucette. She received her primary education at St. Rose of Lima Catholic School in Chisholm and completed her secondary school education in Lewiston, where her family moved when she was in her teens.

She entered the Ursuline Sisters’ Novitiate in August 1940 and made her religious profession as an Ursuline Sister three years later. Majoring in education, she received her bachelor’s degree from St. Joseph’s College in Windham and her master’s degree from Villanova, Pa.

Her teaching career spanned 54 years, the majority of these years in the Maine parochial schools staffed by Ursuline Sisters: Brunswick, Lewiston, Sanford and Waterville and in the Ursuline Private Academy in Waterville.

She also taught a few years in the Ursuline Private Academy in Springfield, Mass., and in an Ursuline staffed school in Middletown, N.Y. A successful, gentle teacher, she was equally successful as a director of her favorite extracurricular activity: drama, in the production of several school plays for elementary school children.

From the early 1990s, she served as board member of the Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter in Waterville, having been honored with a lifetime board membership. In 2003, her health failing, she was admitted to the St. Mary’s d’Youville Pavilion in Lewiston. In 2004, the Homeless Shelter Autumn Walk, which she had strongly supported for years, held its walk to honor her, whose biggest gifts, it claimed, was her love for the poor and the spiritual sense she gave to its mission.

She is survived by several nieces, in particular, Lorette Higgins of Dexter, Terry Shipps of Stillwater, Pauline Maheux of Enfield, Conn., and Pierrette Doucette and Rachel Meimutus; one nephew, John Doucette; and several grandnieces and grandnephews.

She was predeceased by her two sisters, Cecile Cote and Nellie Doucette.

The Ursuline Sisters wish to thank the many care-givers from the d’Youville facility and the hospice personnel who have attentively cared for her during the last five years.