Allen, Texas
Jeanne Marie Girsch
1936 — 2023
Jeanne Marie Girsch was born on July 31, the Feast Day of St. Ignatius, in Chicago, Illinois, to Joseph Anthony Girsch and Althea A. Girsch (nee Egan). The eldest of five daughters, she graduated from Aquinas High School in Chicago and attended Siena Heights College in Adrian, Michigan. Inspired by her grandmother's great faith, Jeanne learned to pray and serve, and at the age of 15, became a Dominican nun, teaching third, fourth and fifth grade in parochial schools in Northern Illinois. At the age of 20, Jeanne heard God's call to see beyond the immediate church and be Christ in the world. She left the Order yet continued to work in Catholic schools as a lay teacher. She married, and...