Please Pray for the Peaceful
Sister Mary Ann (Mary Annette) Scofield, RSM
in Burlingame on June 3, 2012 at the age of 86.
Born in Williston, ND, the second of the four children of Harold and Dorothy Holland Scofield, Mary Ann spent her childhood there. The family moved to Los Angeles where she graduated from Catholic Girls High School (now Bishop Conaty/Loretto High School) in 1944. She entered the Sisters of Mercy in 1947 and professed vows as Sister Mary Annette in 1949. Mary Annette taught elementary and high school at Holy Name School and St. Stephen's School in San Francisco, and St. Catherine's School and Mercy High School in Burlingame for the next 10 years, earning a Ph.D. in Theology from St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana in 1964.
With her background in teaching and theology, Mary Ann was appointed as a director of the formation program for young women entering the Sisters of Mercy, serving in this capacity for 10 years. She tried to make the formation process responsive to the needs of the women entering during the 1960s. "I felt these women could not live in a hot house," she said. "I had them doing apostolic work at Hunters Point, teaching CCD in parishes, making visitations of the sick. Then before they made profession they had home visits."