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Sister Carol Anne Rogers
Carol Anne the second daughter of Gerald and Laura Rogers was born in Wellington and baptised at St Francis de Sales Church in Island Bay. Carol, along with her sister Pauline and brother Brian who both had special needs, lived within a sheltered family atmosphere...
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Sister Anne Galvin
Moya Josephine Galvin, daughter of Eustace Galvin and Margaret Jane (nee Lenihan) was born in Wellington on 12 November, 1929. She had two older brothers, Brian and Paul, and a younger brother, Bernard. She entered Our Lady’s Home of Compassion on 15 February, 1949, and made her First Profession on 15 September, 1951...
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Sister Joseph O’Leary
Mary Elizabeth O’Leary was born on 12 August, 1914; on the eve of the First World War. Mary was the second eldest in a family of four, three boys and the one girl. Mollie, as she was always called lived most of her early life in Petone.