Sr Marie Conlon of the Medical Missionaries of Mary celebrated her 100th Birthday on August 13 and a party was held on August 20 at the MMM Motherhouse in Drogheda, Co. Louth.
Sr Marie was born in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, near Manchester, England. She qualified as a primary school teacher and taught in the Birmingham area for eight years. She entered the Medical Missionaries of Mary in 1947, and taught nurses in Nigeria for 12 years.
Sr Marie returned to Ireland in 1968 and served in MMM administration, in mission awareness, and as a magazine editor. In 1976 she went to Kenya and taught for 10 years.
In 1988, for health reasons, Sr Marie wasn’t able to return to Kenya. Since then she has lived at the MMM Motherhouse and continued teaching in adult literacy programmes.