Funeral services for Sister Mary Madeline will be held at the Felician Sisters Infirmary Chapel, Our Lady of Lourdes Hall, at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday morning, October 29, 2009. Following the Mass of Christian Burial, Sister will be laid to rest in the Felician Sisters Cemetery in Lodi. Sister Mary Madeline died on Monday, October 26, 2009 in Hackensack, New Jersey. She was 78 years old and had been a Felician Sister for 60 years. A wake service will be held at the same location on Wednesday evening, October 28 at 6:00 p.m. The former Mary Theresa Stephens, Sister Madeline was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1931. She entered the postulancy of the Felician Sisters in Lodi, New Jersey in 1949, and received the Felician habit in 1950. She made first religious vows in 1951 and professed final vows in 1957. An elementary school teacher as well as spiritual and formation director, Sister Mary Madeline earned a B.S. degree in elementary education at Seton Hall University and a M.A. in Theology at Saint Bonaventure University in Olean, New York. Sister Mary Madeline is survived by her brothers Jerry Stephens of Florida and Christopher Stephens of Pennsylvania, as well as by members of her extended family. Arrangements under the direction of the Shook Funeral Home, 639 Van Houten Ave., Clifton. www.shook.com