Funeral services for Sister Rita Marie will be held at the Felician Sisters' Our Lady of Lourdes Chapel, Lodi, New Jersey. Sister Rita Marie will then be laid to rest in the Felician Sisters' Cemetery in Lodi.  Sister Rita Marie died on April 28, 2021, in  Lodi, New Jersey.  She was 86 years old and had been a Felician Sister for 68 years.

In this time of Pandemic, all services are private.

The former Rita Theresa Aponik, Sister Rita Marie was born in Philadelphia, PA in 1934 .   She entered the postulancy of the Felician Sisters in Lodi, New Jersey in 1952; received the Felician habit in 1953; professed her first vows in 1954 and final vows in 1960.  She spent most of her religious life in the educational ministry.

Arrangements under the direction of the Shook Funeral Home, 639 Van Houten Ave., Clifton. www.ShookFH.com