Sister Helen Rose Yee Sang (right) and other pall-bearers take the coffin with the body of Sister Maureen Clare Hall, former principal of Immaculate Conception High School, into Sts Peter and Paul Catholic Church as students from the school form a guard of honour during Thursday's mass of thanksgiving and funeral rites. (Photos: Joseph Wellington)
May 19, 2023
Jamaicans hail Sister Maureen Clare Hall
Hundreds of Jamaicans on Thursday celebrated the life of former Immaculate Conception High School principal, Sister Maureen Clare Hall, during a mass of thanksgiving and funeral rites at Sts Peter and Paul Catholic Church in St Andrew.
Sister Maureen, who served as principal from 1963 to 1991, died on May 12 at the age of 88.
During her more than two-decade tenure, Sister Maureen became known as a disciplinarian who, regardless of the demands on her time, always attended to people in need.
Following the mass, at which the top leadership of the Catholic Church in Jamaica officiated, her body was interred at Alvernia cemetery on Old Hope Road.
Sister Trinita Solnek (right ) weeps during the mass of thanksgiving and funeral rites for Sister Maureen Clare Hall at Sts Peter and Paul Catholic Church in St Andrew on Thursday. Beside her is Catherine Hall, who gave a tribute on behalf of the family.
Sister Helen Rose Yee Sang (right ) could not hold back the tears after she gave a tribute on behalf of the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany to former Immaculate Conception High School Principal Sister Maureen Clare Hall at Thursday’s mass of thanksgiving and funeral rights. Comforting her is Monica Cools-Lartigue.
