Maple Mount, Ky. -- Sister Mary Sheila Higdon, 88, an Ursuline Sister of Mount Saint Joseph, died Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018, at Mount Saint Joseph, in her 70th year of religious life. She was a native of Owensboro, Ky.
From 1999-2011, Sister Mary Sheila was the pastoral associate for St. George Parish in Van Buren, St. Catherine Siena Parish in Piedmont, and Our Lady of Sorrows Parish, Williamsville. From 1996 to 1999, she was pastoral minister and director of religious education at Sacred Heart Parish in Dexter. An educator beginning in 1950, she was a teacher at Seven Holy Founders School in Affton from 1959-70. She also taught in Kentucky and Nebraska.
Survivors include two brothers, Hugh Higdon and Eugene Higdon, both of Owensboro.
The funeral Mass will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, at Mount Saint Joseph, where visitation will begin Monday at 4 p.m., with a wake service following at 6:30 p.m. Burial will be in the Motherhouse cemetery.
Glenn Funeral Home and Crematory, Owensboro, Ky., is in charge of arrangements.
Donations in memory of Sister Mary Sheila may be made to the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph, 8001 Cummings Road, Maple Mount, Ky., 42356.
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