Sister Clementine Skalicky, OSF

MARCH 23, 1913 - SEPTEMBER 5, 1974

Sister M. Clementine (Cecilia) Skalicky, a member of the School Sisters of St. Francis, died on September 5, 1974, at St. Francis General Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pa. She was 60 and her in her 45th year of religious life.

She was born to Joseph and Mary (Kuholy) Skalicky on March 23, 1913, in the North Side section of Pittsburgh. Cecilia entered the community in 1928 — one of 11 novices who first came from St. Gabriel on Pittsburgh’s North Side to the new Mount Assisi Motherhouse in Bellevue that year — and received the name Sister Clementine. She professed first vows in 1929 and final vows in 1935.

Sister Frances Marie held a bachelor’s degree in education from Villa Maria College in Erie, Pa., and a master’s degree in education from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

Over more than four decades in active ministry, Sister taught at Catholic grade schools in the Pennsylvania towns of Barnesboro, Ambridge, Tarentum, Farrell, McKees Rocks, Erie, Shenandoah, McAdoo, Bethlehem, Hellertown, Stowe, Ellsworth, New Castle, Perryopolis, and Pittsburgh. She was principal of schools in Stowe and Ellsworth, and also served in Ohio and New Jersey.

Wherever she served, Sister often was involved in mission work and also served as the church organist. In her later years, she worked as a night nurse for disabled children and as a part-time portress at Mount Assisi Convent in Pittsburgh.

She died after a prolonged battle with brain cancer.

Sister Clementine is buried in St. Francis Cemetery at Mt. Assisi Place in Pittsburgh, Pa.