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KENNY, CAROLINE MARY (1887-1962)

KENNY, CAROLINE MARY, Sister Kenny of the Religious Hospitallers of St Joseph; nurse and administrator; b. Chatham, 29 May 1887, d/o John Kenny and Katherine McCarvell; entered religious life, c1906; d. Chatham, 20 Jun 1962.

Caroline M. Kenny entered the novitiate of the Religious Hospitallers of St Joseph upon completion of her schooling at St Michael's Academy. After the Hotel Dieu Hospital school of nursing was organized she enrolled as a student and became an RN in 1923. Twenty-three years later she completed the requirements for a nursing degree at St Thomas College (BSc 1946). She served in practically every capacity at the Hotel Dieu and also spent some years on the staff of St Joseph's Hospital in Barrhead, Alta. When Mount St Joseph Pavilion, a chronic care hospital, was opened by the Religious Hospitallers at Chatham in 1949 she was appointed as its superintendent.

In 1936 Kenny was named associate editor of Hospital Progress, a journal published in St Louis, Mo. She was a member of the executive of the New Brunswick Registered Nurses' Association and took an active part in the Maritime Conference of Catholic Hospitals Association. In recognition of her earlier work in the nursing field she was awarded the King's Silver Jubilee Medal in 1935. The accomplishments of her career as a whole were noted in 1958 when she celebrated the golden jubilee of the taking of her religious vows. She was seventy-five when she died in 1962.

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[b] church records [d] Commercial World 21 Jun 1962 / Advocate 15 May 1935; Commercial World 5 Jun 1958; Leader 12 Jul 1973; Whitty files


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