Reverend Joseph E. Kurtz, D.D. Bishop | Archdiocese of Louisville

Five Ursuline Sisters of Louisville are marking jubilees this year of 70 and 75 years.

Sister Julienne Guy, a native of Atlanta, made her final vows in 1951. She served as principal of Sacred Heart Academy and as an educator at various schools in Louisville, West Virginia, Nebraska, Ohio, and South Carolina. Additionally, she worked as an educational consultant for the Archdiocese of Louisville and was involved in vocation, campus, and pastoral ministry in South Carolina. She currently resides at Twinbrook Assisted Living.

Sister Donata (Mary Catherine) Kokot was born in Daguscahonda, Penn., and grew up in Bretz, West Virginia. Joining the Ursulines in 1949, she taught at several grade schools in the Louisville area including St. Therese, St. Helen, St. Clement, St. Boniface, and Sacred Heart Model School. Her teaching career spanned 48 years across Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Maryland, South Carolina, and Mississippi. In Mississippi alone she served for 31 years as a teacher and later as a caregiver and medical records clerk. She now resides at Twinbrook Assisted Living.

Sister Julia (Mary Daniel) Davis entered the Ursuline community in 1954 after growing up in Louisville. Her teaching assignments included St. Raphael, St. Leo, St. Peter Claver, St. Rita and St. Helen schools in Louisville and South Carolina for a total of 17 years. Post-Vatican II reforms saw her transition to parish ministry roles such as youth minister and director of music and worship at mission parishes in Mississippi and Kentucky.

Sister Clara (Loyola) Fehringer joined the Ursulines after high school from Colorado. Her teaching career took her to Louisville inner-city schools as well as Nebraska, Indiana, Peru among other locations. Notably active with Spanish-speaking mothers in Texas and holding leadership positions within the Ursuline Sisters community since 1995 she has been involved with Hispanic ministry for the Diocese of Lexington.

Sister Marilyn (Matthew) Mueller from Louisville joined the Ursuline community post-high school graduation teaching across multiple states including Pittsburgh Maryland Nebraska West Virginia besides several local institutions like Angela Merici High School Sacred Heart Academy etc.. She also administered Angela Merici Prayer Center served Our Lady Mt Carmel Church chaplain Signature HealthCARE volunteered three decades Kentucky Center Arts now Twinbrook Assisted Living presence prayer ministry

Messages congratulating these sisters can be sent to: Ursuline Sisters of Louisville 3115 Lexington Road Louisville Ky40206