Sr. Anna C. Kiernan

1915-2015 Sr. Mary of the Incarnation, Anna Kiernan, age 100, passed peacefully into eternal life in the Sisters Convent, on Tuesday, November 24, 2015, in Bosque, NM. Sr. Mary of the Incarnation was born on July 19, 1915, in {Lowell, MA} to William and Anne Kiernan. She attended Lowell Teachers College and went on to earn a Master's degree in education from Boston University. After graduation she took a job as a training teacher for the girls of Lowell Teachers College. She was also the Reading Supervisor for the City of Lowell. In 1953 she met Fr. James Flanagan who had been assigned, as a newly ordained Priest, to her parish. Sister had felt a call to religious life for some time, and after discernment, and a series of developments which took place in the beginnings of the founding of the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity, she joined the community and went to New Mexico, with a group of women who felt called to help begin the Society. Sister was among the first group of religious sisters of Our Lady's Society present in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on July 15, 1958, the day of the Society's blessing by Archbishop Edwin Byrne. She was present at the first Mass of Our Lady's Society on the following day, July 16, 1958, in Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, Holman. Sister was also the first Superior of Our Lady's Sisters and held that position until 1964. During these foundation years, Sister taught first grade in the school at Holman. After this time Sister served in a number of different missions and apostolates: Kansas City, Chiapas, Mexico, again in Holman, and eleven years spent serving and teaching in the community college in the Hopi land, Arizona mission. After Hopi land she served again in Kansas City, Robstown and finally came to reside in Bosque, New Mexico with the Our Lady's community there. Sr. Mary of the Incarnation is survived by her sister Alice, and 2 nieces, 6 nephews and 13 great nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by her parents, William Russell Kiernan and Anne G. (Doyle) Kiernan, her brothers John, Bill, Cornelius, and Joe, and her sister Mary. The Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity is deeply grateful for the life and vocation of Sr. Mary of the Incarnation, especially for the key role she played in helping to found the community as one of it's original members. We honor her courage, her obedience to grace and her great perseverance in following God's plan as it unfolded. And we ask the Most Holy Trinity and Our Lady's special blessing upon her in the fullness of the graces of the mystery of the Incarnation she was privilege to live.

Sr. Anna C. Kiernan

July 19, 1915 - November 24, 2015