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Sister Maria Goretti Wieser, S.C., who served for 21 years at St. Joseph’s School for the Deaf in the Bronx, died Feb. 5 at Kittay Senior Apartments in the Bronx. She was 89.
Sister Maria taught and later volunteered at St. Joseph’s School for the Deaf, 1987-2008. She taught at Cardinal Spellman High School, the Bronx, 1976-1988; St. Michael High School, Manhattan, 1971-1976; Academy of Mount St. Vincent, Tuxedo Park, 1970-1971; St. Emeric, Manhattan, 1967-1970; St. Stephen, Manhattan, 1964-1967; St. Agatha, Nanuet, 1956-1964; and St. Peter, Staten Island, 1954-1956.
She also taught in West Germany.
Born in Morris Plains, N.J., she visited Germany at age 8 with her mother and two sisters before the start of World War II, and they were not permitted to return to the United States. She attended schools in Germany for grades three through eight before going to high school at Holy Cross Academy in Manhattan.
Sister Maria entered the Sisters of Charity of New York in 1951 and professed final vows in 1960.
She received a bachelor’s degree in biology from the College of Mount St. Vincent, the Bronx; a master’s in German literature from New York University, Manhattan; and a master’s in special education for the hearing impaired from Hunter College, Manhattan.
A Funeral Mass was celebrated Feb. 10 in St. Margaret of Cortona Church, the Bronx. Burial was in St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Yonkers.
