Sister Geraldine Duran, FMI, To Note Diamond Jubilee

Amarillo—Franciscan Sister of Mary Immaculate Sister Geraldine Duran will note her Diamond Jubilee Saturday, June 29 during a 10:30am Mass at the Franciscan Convent, 4301 NE 18th.
 
Bishop Patrick J. Zurek will preside at the Mass, with priests of the Diocese of Amarillo concelebrating. The Mass will also note the Silver Jubilee of fellow Franciscan Sister Maria del Rosario Fiscal.
 
According to a Sept. 5, 2004 story in The West Texas Catholic, Sister Geraldine Duran was born in El Llano-Anton Chico, NM on March 6, 1923 and entered the novitiate at the former St. Mary’s Convent in Santa Fe in 1941. She made her first vows on Jan. 6, 1944 in Santa Fe and her perpetual vows on Jan. 6, 1947 in Aragon, NM. Sister Geraldine marked her Silver Jubilee in 1969 and her Golden Jubilee in 1994.
 
Sister Geraldine has served the Church as a Franciscan Sister of Mary Immaculate, ministering to young children as a teacher in Aragon; at St. Anthony’s School, Hereford; Resurrection School in Los Angeles; and, at St. Laurence School, Amarillo.
 
She also performed pastoral work in Lubbock and served as librarian at Alamo Catholic High School (now Holy Cross Catholic Academy) in Amarillo.
 
Sister Geraldine is the owner a Bachelor’s Degree in Education and a Master’s Degree in Library Science. She has studied at Incarnate Word College and Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio; Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles; the University of Albuquerque; and, Catholic University in Washington, D.C.
 
After spending 40 years in education, Sister Geraldine retired and served the community as provincial superior twice and as councilor and house superior.