Sister Patricia Ann Taube

1938 - 2025

Sister Patricia Ann Taube, OSF

July 6, 1938 - July 21, 2025

Sister Patricia Taube (formerly Sister Mary Mateo) died at Rosary Care Center in Sylvania, Ohio, on July 21, 2025, two weeks after her 87th birthday. The daughter of Thomas and Eleanor Taube came to Sylvania from SS. Peter and Paul Parish in Detroit, Michigan, in 1956, to become a Sister of St. Francis. She felt called by God from an early age to dedicate her life to helping others. She made her first profession of vows in 1958, and her final vows in 1961.

Sister Pat's 66 years in religious life were full of a variety of ways in which she answered God's call. Her first ministry was in education at the elementary level, where she taught in schools in Ohio, Michigan and Minnesota. She received a B.A. degree from Mary Manse College, Toledo, Ohio. In the 1970s she felt called to the ministry of religious education and pursued an M.A. at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. Sister Pat then received a call to be the Director of the East Toledo Religious Education Center where she provided programming and resources to support parishes in the area as well as implementing the call for ecumenism after Vatican II. She had a special heart to see that all people were treated with dignity, which led her to assist Father Bernie Boff in establishing the Bible Center in Toledo's Central City. She later moved on to work as Director of Religious Education Centers in Steubenville and Mansfield, Ohio.

Sister Pat's next call came in the form of Clinical Pastoral Education studies, which prepared her to minister in a parish and Mansfield State Prison in Ohio. As a Board Certified Chaplain, she went to Huntington, West Virginia, where she ministered as a chaplain in rehab centers and hospitals. She also served as a family caregiver at this time.

Another call came later to Sister Pat which she describes in her 60th Jubilee biography, "On [her 75th birthday], July 6, 2013, despite a sunny sky, I experienced a storm which radically changed my life. My body's response to a bacterial infection turned into Sepsis which affected my whole body and resulted in the loss of my limbs. My new disability left no choice but to leave my ministry in West Virginia to return to heal at Rosary Care Center on the Motherhouse grounds in Sylvania. Once I'd adjusted, I again listened for that special 'call' and realized that my work now is to assist others to answer their 'call' in my ministry of Spiritual Direction and Retreat Director.... As I celebrate my 60th Jubilee, I live 'one day at a time' with my ear to my heart."

Sister Pat has been an inspiration to the Sisters and Associates in her community, to her caregivers at Rosary Care Center and to the many people she experienced graced encounters with over her lifetime. She will be greatly missed by her brothers, Michael and Thomas (Jean) Taube; as well as many nieces and nephews.

Due to Sister Pat's request for a Green (natural) Burial, she was buried in the Sisters of St. Francis cemetery on Wednesday, July 23, 2025.

There will be a sharing of memories from 10:00 - 11:00 a.m., on Thursday, July 31, 2025, in Our Lady Queen of Peace Chapel, followed by a Memorial Mass at 11:00 a.m., in the Chapel. The funeral will be live streamed here: https://video.ibm.com/channel/RvdadQRjbGk.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Sisters of St. Francis, Sylvania, Ohio. Arrangements by the Thomas I. Wisniewski Funeral Home, Toledo, Ohio.

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