Sister Mary Aquinata, Funeral services for Sister Mary Aquinata Kowalewska will be held at the Felician Sisters' Infirmary Chapel, Our Lady of Lourdes Hall, at 11 AM on Tuesday morning, July 26, 2011. Following the Mass of Christian Burial, Sister Aquinata will be laid to rest in the Felician Sisters' Cemetery in Lodi. Sister Mary Aquinata died on July 17, 2011 in Lodi, New Jersey. She was 97 years old and had been a Felician Sister for 80 years. An Evening Prayer service will be held at the same location on Monday, July 25, 2011 at 6 PM. The former Josephine Kowalewska, Sister Mary Aquinata was born in Baltimore, MD, in 1913. She entered the postulancy of the Felician Sisters in Lodi, New Jersey in 1931, and received the Felician habit in 1932. She made first religious vows in 1933 and professed final vows in 1939. Sister Mary Aquinata spent most of her religious life in the ministry of education, both as a teacher and a school librarian. She is mourned by members of her extended family, most of whom live in Maryland. Arrangements under the direction of the Shook Funeral Home, 639 Van Houten Ave., Clifton. www.shookfh.com