Sister Clare Pisaneschi, MPF

MORRISTOWN, N.J. — After a brief illness, Sister Clare Pisaneschi MPF, 85, passed away quietly on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014, at St. Joseph Hall, Villa Walsh, Morristown.

Born in Exeter, Sister Clare entered the Religious Teachers Filippini in 1949. She received the habit in 1950, and made her religious profession in 1953.

Sister Clare was awarded a B.S. degree in elementary education from Marywood University, Scranton, and a Masters Degree in history from Seton Hall University.

Sister Clare taught at the following schools: Our Lady of Pompei, Baltimore, St. Anthony, Bristol, Connecticut, Our Lady of Sorrows, Jersey City, New Jersey, St. Francis Xavier, Newark, New Jersey, St. Ann, New York, St. Joachim, Trenton, New Jersey, St. Peter, Torrington, Connecticut, St. James, Trenton, St. Anthony, Dunmore, Our Lady of Libera, West New York, New Jersey, St. Joseph, Lodi, New Jersey, St. Bartholomew, Scotch Plains, New Jersey, Most Holy Rosary, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, Blessed Sacrament, Paterson, New Jersey, St. Ann Raritan, New Jersey.

Sister Clare was pastoral minister and Director of Religious Education at Mount Carmel Parish, Pittston, and principal at St. Anthony, Belleville, New Jersey.

Sister Clare was elected Regional Coordinator of Religious Education for the Pittston area, and briefly served on the Bishop's Council for Religious.

Sister Clare came to Villa Walsh in 2012, where she assisted as telephone operator and had opportunities to exercise her artistic ability. She became a resident at St. Joseph Hall Infirmary, Villa Walsh, Morristown, in September 2014 and passed on shortly after this.

Sister Clare is the daughter of the late John Pisaneschi and Pearl (Nincheri) Pisaneschi. She is preceded in death by her sisters, Norma Pisaneschi, Celia Pisaneschi and Vilma Manini.

She is survived by nieces and nephews; grandnieces and grandnephews; and her beloved grandnephew, Robert Manini, Pittston.

Viewing will be held 2 to 4 p.m. Tuesday followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 4 p.m. in the St. Lucy Chapel at Villa Walsh, Morristown. The celebrant and homilist for the liturgy is the Rev. Przemysl Nowak, parochial vicar at Assumption Parish in Morristown. Interment will take place at Ave Maria Cemetery.

Arrangements are by the Doyle Funeral Home, Morristown.

In lieu of flowers, donations in memory of Sister Clare will be accepted to the St. Joseph Hall Infirmary, c/o Sister Ascenza Tizzano MPF, Provincial Superior, Villa Walsh, 455 Western Ave., Morristown, NJ 07960-4928.