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Four Sisters of Mount Carmel celebrate jubilees

Four Sisters of Mount Carmel will be honored in celebration of the anniversaries of their religious professions at a Mass and reception Sept. 19 at St. Leo Church in Lafayette.
Celebrating 60 years of vowed life are Sisters Joan Broussard, Bartholomew “B” DeRouen, Lawrence Habetz and Evelyn Mire.

Sister Joan, native of Pecan Island, Louisiana, entered the congregation in 1952. After earning a master’s degree in child development and fam- ily living from Texas Woman’s University, she taught in various schools of the Sisters of Mount Carmel in New Iberia, Carencro, Paincourtville, New Orleans (St. Dominic) and Thibodaux. She served as a missionary in Peru and Mexico as well as a home missionary among Navajo Indians in New Mexico. She worked with Boys Hope of Baton Rouge and spent many years as house di- rector of the Carmelite Retreat Center in Lacombe and coordinator for the retired sisters. She teaches Spanish at Cub Corner Preschool and volunteers as a Spanish translator at Notre Dame Hospice in New Orleans.

Sister Bartholomew, a native of New Orleans, entered the congregation in 1952 and made her first profession in 1955. She has a master’s degree in education from St. Louis University and a certificate of advanced educational speci- fication in religious educa- tion from Boston College. She taught from 1955-75 at St. James Major High School in New Orleans, where she served as principal from 1966-69 and later at Mount Carmel High School in Abbeville, Mount Carmel Academy in New Orleans and Mount Carmel High School in New Iberia. She worked in campus ministry at McNeese State University in Lake Charles and Louisiana State University in Eunice. She served as councilor for the congregation from 1985-93. She was a family counselor for the Diocese of Lafayette, and served as pastoral associate in Rayne. She also served as coordinator of spirituality at the Maryhill Renewal Center in Pineville, LA. From 1997-2001 she was a pastoral worker at St. Genevieve Church in Lafayette. She resides at Evangeline Oaks Guest House in Carencro.

