Funeral services for Sister Mary Claudia Rostek will be held at the Felician Sisters' Infirmary Chapel, Our Lady of Lourdes Hall, at 11:00 a.m. on Friday morning, April 29, 2011. Following the Mass of Christian Burial, Sister Claudia will be laid to rest in the Felician Sisters' Cemetery in Lodi. Sister Mary Claudia died on April 27, 2011 in Hackensack, New Jersey. She was 83 years old and had been a Felician Sister for 65 years. An Evening Prayer service will be held at the same location on Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. The former Mildred Rostek, Sister Mary Claudia was born in Baltimore, MD in 1927. She entered the postulancy of the Felician Sisters in Lodi, New Jersey in 1945, and received the Felician habit in 1946. She made first religious vows in 1947 and professed final vows in 1953. Sister Mary Claudia dedicated herself to the ministry of education on the elementary and secondary levels in the United States and Brazil. While ministering in Brazil, she became the Vice Provincial from 1971 to 1977. She also spent some years at the Holy House in Washington, New Jersey. Sister Mary Claudia is survived by nieces, nephews and other members of her extended family, most of whom live in Maryland. Arrangements under the direction of Shook Funeral Home, 639 Van Houten Ave., Clifton. www.shookfh.com