WATERVILLE — Sister Lillian Poulin, CSJ, 94, formerly known as Sister Henry Georgianna, died Tuesday, Nov. 9, at Mount St. Joseph.

She was born in Jackman, Nov. 29, 1915, the daughter of George and Georgiana (Paradis) Poulin. She received her elementary education at St. Anthony School and her high school education at Jackman High School. She later obtained a bachelor’s degree from St. Joseph’s College in Windham and a master’s degree from the University of Maine in Orono.

After her high school graduation in 1933, Sister Lillian entered the novitiate of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Lyon, France, where she made her first profession of religious vows in 1935. She then studied two years at St. Bruno’s College in Lyon.

As a teacher, she served at the Academy of St. Joseph in South Berwick and was a junior high teacher at Sacred Heart School in Auburn. From 1940 to 1948, she taught English and business courses at Colegio Mayorazgo in Mexico City in Mexico. On weekends and during vacation she ministered to the poorest of the poor Indians in the suburbs of Mexico City.

Sister Lillian served as superior at St. Joseph’s Convent in South Berwick; was first administrator of Murtha Memorial Hospital in Jackman from 1952 to 1956; and served as administrator of Marie-Joseph Hospital in Jackman from 1967 to 1972. From 1972 to 1977, she was a provincial team member for the Maine Province of the Sisters of St. Joseph and was a coordinator of Fontbonne Community, a community for retired sisters in Waterville from 1977 to 1986. From 1986 to 1989, she did pastoral ministry at Mount St. Joseph in Waterville. She joined the Fontbonne Community in January 2000.

Survivors include her brother, Patrick of Westbrook; two sisters, Arlene and husband, George Grahan, of Greeley, Colo., and Celeste and husband, David Nichols, of Orono; sister-in-law, Germaine Poulin of Dexter; three cousins, Anna Labonville and Denise and Leo Dumoulin; and many nephews, grandnephews and faithful friends.

She was predeceased by two brothers, Raymond and Raph; and two sisters-in-law, Loretta and Elizabeth.

The Sisters of St. Joseph express their sincere appreciation to all the nurses at the Mount for the love and compassion they gave Sister Lillian.