August 13, 1937 ~ January 17, 2025
Sister M. Joseph Cecile Voelker, CSC, died on January 17, 2025, in Saint Mary’s Convent, Notre Dame, Indiana.
Among her other accomplishments, Sr. Joseph Cecile earned a doctoral degree in education administration from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, in 1970, while serving as coordinator of elementary education in the Diocese of Salt Lake City.
In 2000, Sister Joseph Cecile began her pastoral care ministry in Ogden, Utah, where she was a pastoral associate for 12 years at St. Joseph Parish. There, she coordinated the ministry to the homebound and to those in hospitals and nursing homes. She also facilitated the parish Bible study group and was part of the parish Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) team. Sister Joseph Cecile was a member of several boards in Ogden, including St. Joseph Catholic High School, the Diocesan Liturgy Commission, St. Anne’s Homeless Shelter and Skaggs Family Foundation. Father Kenneth Vialpando, the pastor of St. Joseph Parish, said that they would have to find 10 people to replace her once she retired.
Funeral arrangements are as follows: Visitation begins at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, January 23, in the Church of Our Lady of Loretto at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana. Prayers in the Presence of the Body with memento begin at 10:30 a.m., followed by the Mass of the Resurrection.
The service will be televised to Saint Mary’s Convent over closed-circuit channel 4 and livestreamed on the Church of Loretto YouTube channel.
(Editor’s note: A complete obituary will run in next week’s Intermountain Catholic.)
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