Please Pray for
the Peaceful Repose of the Soul of
Sister Margaret Mary Moloney
(9/23/1920 ~ 8/27/2013)
A nurse, teacher, author, spiritual director - and a Sister of Mercy for 75 years!
Sister Margaret Mary was born Sept. 23, 1920, in Chicago, IL, to parents Patrick Joseph and Margaret (McElligott) Moloney. She entered the Sisters of Mercy on Sept. 8, 1938. She earned her bachelor's in nursing from Saint Xavier, a master's in nursing from Catholic University of America, her PhD in administration of higher education from Catholic University, and a doctor of ministry in theology from Graduate Theological Foundation, Donaldson, IN.
For almost 20 years, she served as the director of the school of nursing in Mercy hospitals in Chicago; Janesville, WS; Marshalltown and Iowa City, IA. In the late 60s, she served as assistant dean at Boston (MA) College; dean at Loyola (Chicago) School of Nursing (1970-1975); assistant dean at Indiana University School of Nursing (1975-1977); and visiting professor at Rush University School of Nursing in Chicago (1977-1980). She then served as dean of the school of nursing at Wright State in Dayton, OH (1980-1985). In 1985, she left teaching to author five books, with her most notable being Leadership in Nursing: Theory, Strategies, Behavior that was publicly recognized as the 1979 Book of the Year by the American Journal of Nursing. Beginning in 2000, she served as spiritual director at Holy Trinity Spirituality Center in Naperville, IL, until officially retiring in 2010.