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CAMPBELL, JOSEPHINE (1883-1976)

CAMPBELL, JOSEPHINE, Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart of the Religious Hospitallers of St Joseph; superior at Chatham, 1929-35 and 1938-44; b. St Sebastien, Que., 11 Nov 1883, d/o Pierre Campbell and Marie Nadeau; entered religious life, 1901; d. Amherstview, Ont., 27 May 1976.

Josephine Campbell attended high school to grade ten in Fall River, Mass., and subsequently resumed her studies through correspondence. In 1901 she entered the novitiate of the Religious Hospitallers of St Joseph at Winooski, Vermont. She later transferred to Chatham and took her vows there in 1903. Most of her service was rendered in Chatham, where she organized and taught a domestic science program at St Michael's Academy. She also acted as bursar of the local community. In 1929 she was elected to a three-year term as superior, which was renewed for another three years in 1933. In 1933-34 she extended the mission of the Religious Hospitallers far afield by sending Jane Connors (Sister St Joseph) and two other members to aid in the establishment of a new Hotel Dieu hospital in Antigo, Wisconsin.

Campbell was mistress of novices at Chatham between 1935 and 1938 and was then re-elected as superior for two more three-year terms. In 1940 she again expanded the influence of the order by assisting with the establishment of the Hotel Dieu at Barrhead, Alta. As before, when she completed her service as superior she returned to being mistress of novices. In succeeding years she filled various short-term positions of responsibility in Ontario. In 1956, when she was past seventy, she was made director of the wardrobe department at the provincial house at Kingston.

Campbell was ninety-two years of age and had been a member of the Hospitallers for more than seventy-five years at the time of her death in 1976. "In all the different offices which she held, she left the stamp of a true religious worker."

SOURCE: RHSJ archives (Amherstview)


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