(Formerly Sister M. Zita)
Sister Therese has enjoyed teaching and pastoral ministry over 60 years of service. Her 30-year teaching career included St. Mary (Collinwood), St. Mary (Mentor), Our Lady of Peace and Immaculate Conception in Cleveland, St. Therese (Garfield Heights), St. Mary Magdalene (Willowick), St. Clare (Lyndhurst), St. Ann (Cleveland Heights) and Holy Cross (Euclid). She spent an additional 30 years as pastoral minister at St. John Bosco (Parma Hts.), Assumption (Broadview Heights) and Mary Queen of the Apostles (Brook Park). In recent years, she has been involved in the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) of the Pepper Pike Fire Department and as the Ursulines’ representative to the Human Trafficking Collaborative. Sister Therese resides at Light of Hearts Villa in Bedford.