ASU remembers

   

Mary Clare Sweeney

Instructor, English - 1970 to 1980 and 1982 to 2002

   

  

Mary Clare Sweeney

  

July 8, 2014

Sister Mary Clare Sweeney, BVM (Clarita), 84, died July 8, 2014. Burial is in the Mount Olivet cemetery, Key West, IA. Sister Mary Clare served on the faculty of ASU and ASU East (1970-80, 1982-2002) as English instructor, director of the writing center, graduate student teacher in the College of Technology, and computer consultant for faculty. She was a volunteer and professor emerita (2002-06). She professed first vows on March 19, 1950, and final vows on Aug. 15, 1955. She was preceded in death by her parents and a brother. She is survived by three brothers, a sister, nieces, nephews and the Sisters of Charity, BVM, with whom she shared life for 66 years.