Carroll, Sister Glenna

Other Events:

• Religious Vows: 5 Aug 1955; Sinsinawa Dominican
• Obituary: 6 Oct 2006; The Catholic Key
• Obituary: 12 Oct 2006; Catholic New York

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Obituary:
SINSINAWA, Wis. - Dominican Sister Glenna Carroll spent the last 15 years of her life serving the poor in the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph.
On Sept. 21, Sister Glenna died at Southwest Health Center in Platteville, Wis., near the motherhouse of the Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa where she had retired earlier this year. She was 75.
A Mass of Resurrection was celebrated Sept. 27 at the motherhouse with burial in the motherhouse cemetery.
From 1991 until her retirement, Sister Glenna helped scores of elderly and poor homeowners keep their homes in repair. In doing so, she reestablished the presence of the Sinsinawa Dominicans in Kansas City, a presence that dates back to their service at the former Holy Name School in the 19th century.
With a grant from her Dominican community for living expenses, Sister Glenna spent her first year in Kansas City working with the Mercy Housing Association in Kansas City on minor, but vital, repairs to the homes of people who could not afford to have the work done.
After gaining that experience, she founded Helpful Hands, an agency that raised money and coordinated volunteers to repair homes primarily in Kansas City's Blue Hills neighborhood surrounding St. Therese Little Flower Parish.
No stranger to hard labor, Sister Glenna was a fixture at job sites, hammer, saw or paint brush in hand.
In a 1998 interview with The Catholic Key, Sister Glenna said that in 1989 she saw a television documentary about a faith-based home repair ministry in Florida. She particularly noticed the faces of the people who were receiving assistance.
"You could see that they had a whole new attitude about life because someone cared for them," Sister Glenna said. "I snapped my fingers and said, 'That is my next ministry.'"
Soon, she was off to Appalachia to help other religious sisters in an established home repair program.
"I loved it," she told The Catholic Key. "I always loved working with my hands. I could hammer and I could saw, and I was always the one fixing things up around the house" while growing up, she said.
"Helpful Hands is about allowing people to live in dignity in their own homes," Sister Glenna said.
Sister Glenna was born June 15, 1931, in Appleton, Wis., the daughter of C.M. Glenn and Dorothy (Milhaupt) Carroll. Her parents and two sisters, Patricia Darnieder and Dominican Sister Marie Bernadette Carroll, preceded her in death.
She made her first profession of vows with the Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa, Wis., on Aug. 5, 1955, and her final profession Aug. 5, 1958.
For the first 20 years of her service as a woman religions, Sister Glenna was an elementary and high school teacher, serving Catholic schools in Montana, Illinois, Wisconsin and New York.
She also served as head of a food pantry in Schiller Park, Ill., and worked with J.S. Paulich Worship Publishers in Chicago.
Sister Glenna is survived by two sisters, Sue Heinritz and Nancy Ralphs; one brother, Father Michael Carroll; nieces and nephews; and her Dominican sisters.
Memorials may be made to the Sinsinawa Dominicans, 585 County Road Z, Sinsinawa, WI, 53824-9701 or online at www.sinsinawa.org.

Also obit from the Telegraph Herald 9/23/2006;
SINSINAWA, Wis. - Sister Glenna Carroll, OP, 75, of St. Dominic Villa, Sinsinawa, died at 11:15 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 21, 2006, at Southwest Health Center, Platteville.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Queen of the Rosary Chapel, Dominican Motherhouse, Sinsinawa, with burial in the Motherhouse Cemetery. Friends may call after 5:15 p.m. Tuesday at the Gathering Place, Dominican Motherhouse, where there will be a wake and remembering service at 6:30 p.m. The Egelhof, Siegert & Casper Westview Funeral Home, 2659 Kennedy Road, Dubuque, is in charge of arrangements.
Sister Glenna was a primary and elementary teacher for 20 years. She also was a photographer and did community work in Kansas City, Mo., from 1982 until her retirement in 2006. She served in Montana, Illinois, Wisconsin, New York and Missouri.
She was born on June 15, 1931, in Appleton, daughter of C.M. Glenn and Dorothy (Milhaupt) Carroll.
She made her first profession of religious vows on Aug. 5, 1955.
Surviving are two sisters, Susan Heinritz and Nancy Ralphs; a brother, the Rev. Michael Carroll; nieces and nephews; and her Dominican Sisters, with whom she shared life for 51 years.

Obituary:
Sister Glenna Carroll, O.P., who taught at Corpus Christi School in Manhattan, 1974-1975, died Sept. 21 at Southwest Health Center in Platteville, Wis. She was 75. She also taught in Illinois, Wisconsin and Montana, and served from 1991 to 2006 with a housing organization in Missouri that helped people to repair their homes. Born in Appleton, Wis., she made first vows with the Sinsinawa Dominicans in 1955 and final vows in 1958. She is survived by one brother, Father Michael Carroll, and two sisters, Sue Heinritz and Nancy Ralphs. A Funeral Mass was offered Sept. 27 at the motherhouse in Sinsinawa, Wis. Burial was in the cemetery there.