AUBURN — Sister Jeanne Marie Couillard, OP (Sr. Jeanne du Sacre Coeur), died Saturday, Sept. 25, at Bolster Heights Residential Care Center. She was a Dominican Sister of the Roman Congregation, and prior to her illness resided at the Dominican Convent at 61 Lisbon Road, Sabattus.

Sister Jeanne was born on March 28, 1919, in Barre, Vt., the daughter of Joseph J. and Yvonne (Trahan) Couillard. She entered the Dominican Sisters as a postulant in Valleyfield, Canada, on Feb. 23, 1945, at the age of 25, where she received her initial religious formation and made her temporary vows in 1947. In 1953, she was assigned to Mortefontaine, France, where she continued her formation and made her final vows on July 29, 1954.

Sr. Jeanne made her professional studies at Fordham University in New York, where she received her teaching degree. Her missionary and itinerant heart brought her to many places, where she experienced life with a variety of people. She was an educator in Lewiston and Sabattus, as well as in Ain-es-Seba, Morocco, Tokyo, Japan, Staten Island, N.Y., Beloit, Wis., and Davenport, Iowa. Sr. Jeanne also did mission work in North Battleford, Canada, Klagetoh and Keams Canyon, Ariz. She spent her retirement years in Iowa City and Riverside, Iowa, as well as Sabattus.

Sr. Jeanne will be remembered as a very joyful and hospitable sister. She had a profound life of prayer, and a keen sense of God and of her Dominican life. She was very gifted intellectually, was an avid reader, and kept up with all the news. She will be greatly missed by her family and Dominican Community.

She is survived by two sisters, Estelle Loubier and Georgette Pelletier, of Lewiston; nieces and nephews; as well as the members of her Dominican religious community.

She was predeceased by her parents; and two brothers, Ralph Couillard and Roland Couillard.

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