Sister Mary Laurentine. Funeral services for Sister Mary Laurentine Sacilowski will be held at the Felician Sisters Infirmary Chapel, Our Lady of Lourdes Hall, at 11:00 a.m. on Monday morning, July 19, 2010. Following the Mass of Christian Burial, Sister will be laid to rest in the Felician Sisters Cemetery in Lodi.

Sister Mary Laurentine died on July 17, 2010 in Lodi, New Jersey. She was 99 years old and had been a Felician Sister for 78 years. A wake service will be held at the same location on Sunday evening, July 18 at 6:00 p.m.

The former Jeanette Sacilowski, Sister Mary Laurentine was born in Bayonne, New Jersey in 1911. She entered the postulancy of the Felician Sisters in Lodi, New Jersey in December of 1931, and received the Felician habit in 1933. She made first religious vows in 1934 and professed final vows in 1940.

Thoroughly committed to the education ministry, Sister Laurentine taught in elementary schools in the Archdioceses of Baltimore and Newark as well as in the Dioceses of Paterson and Trenton. Sister Mary Laurentine is survived by her brother Matthew Sacilowski of Whiting, New Jersey as well as by several members of her extended family. Arrangements under the direction of the Shook Funeral Home, 639 Van Houten Ave., Clifton. www.shookfh.com