Sr. Ann Elizabeth McCreary

PORTLAND – Sr. Ann Elizabeth McCreary passed away Friday, Nov. 11, 2022, at St. Joseph’s Rehab in Portland, Maine.

Sr. Ann was born Nov. 13, 1936, in the Bronx, New York, the daughter of Ernest and Anna (Mann) McCreary. She was a 1956 graduate of Julia Richmond High School in Manhattan, N.Y. After graduation she was employed as a telephone operator and then she went on to work at Little Philosopher School of Learning in East Orange New Jersey. Sr. Ann also lived in Belleville New Jersey and finally in Newark

Sr. Ann received a certificate of completion from the Post Graduate School of Nursing in Chicago, Illinois and Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., where she learned to do sign language. She would go on to sign the Masses in her parish when she returned to New Jersey.

Sr. Ann was preceded in death by her parents and her brother Trevor. She joined the Community of the Resurrection July 19, 1996, and made final profession July 2, 2003. In 1997 she became a member of the Dominican Laity and made final promises in 2001.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 3, 2022 at the St. Joseph Church, 225 S. High St. in Bridgton. For those unable to attend in person, the service will be live streamed at http://www.vimeo.com/event/2649674/4f5b3f4da8. Arrangements are in the care of the Hall Funeral Home, 165 Quaker Ridge Road in Casco. http://www.hallfuneralhome.net.