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| From left: Shirley Parham of St. Mary’s activities staff, Ashley and Sister Mary June Morin spent some time together in Sister’s office during Sister’s last day on the job today after 51 years at St. Mary’s Home for Disabled Children. |
Fifty-one years ago today, Sister Mary June Morin arrived in Norfolk to work at what was then St. Mary’s Infant Home. She spent the ensuing decades working, as she likes to put it, “in all the corners of St. Mary’s,” from doing laundry to teaching Montessori school to arranging activities.
Sister, the last nun on St. Mary’s staff, is finally going to get a well-deserved chance to relax. Today was her last day on the job at St. Mary’s Home for Disabled Children. She arrived at her usual time — about 4:30 a.m. She worked on scrapbooks detailing St. Mary’s history, handed over paperwork to staff who will be assuming her duties and, of course, played with the children.
On Wednesday, St. Mary’s will honor Sister with a special luncheon celebration. Sister has already promised to come back to the Home as a volunteer. Still, we all will miss her daily presence. She is the heart of St. Mary’s Home.
UPDATE: Here’s a story about Sister from WAVY-TV 10: