Sister Mary Adalberta Rohaly

Sister Mary Adalberta Rohaly, SM (Teresa)

Died: June 16, 2023

Age: 92, born September 12, 1930

Preceded in death by: parents, Rosa and Martin and two sisters, Mary and Helen

Special friend of Karen Thrasher, Mary Smith and Sr. Margaret Taylor, SIW.

Sr. Mary Adalberta, SM was born in Faj, Hungary, the second of three children.  Her older sister was Mary and her younger sister was Helen.  She had a very religious upbringing as her father was a shoemaker who also assisted at the village church by ringing the bells and working in the sacristy for 25 years.

Sr. Mary Adalberta came to know the Social Mission Sisters because her pastor’s mother knew of them.  She entered the Order at age 15.

Sr. Mary Adalberta began her ministry by teaching kindergarten for twenty years.  In 1971, she came to Burton, Ohio, to minister at the Byzantine Shrine of Mariapoch.  She kept a very busy schedule of welcoming all the visitors to the Shrine over many years.  She compared herself to being “Veronica” as she responded to the needs of the Shrine visitors.  She worked with Sr. Flora Kovics in cooking Sunday dinner for the pilgrims to the Shrine; preparing for the Sunday Mass as well as keeping a religious goods store in their convent.  She and Sr. Flora even kept up with all the lawn mowing of the Shrine grounds.

Sr. Mary Adalberta celebrated her 70th Jubilee of Religious Life in 2020.  She was always caring, sensitive and loving.  A good holy nun, she was prayerful, faithful and loyal to hours of prayer and Eucharistic Adoration.

Regina Health Center welcomed Sr. Mary Adalberta on January 4, 2008.

Wake:   Regina Health Center Chapel    Funeral: Regina Health Center Chapel

5232 Broadview Rd.-Richfield                   Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Tuesday, June 20, 2023                            11:00 a.m.

10:00 am – 11:00 a.m.                             .

Father John Burkley will celebrate the Mass of Resurrection.

Burial:  All Souls Cemetery