Sister Martha Gleason, O.S.U.

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Sister Martha Gleason, O.S.U., who taught at The Ursuline School in New Rochelle for 15 years, died Feb. 1 at Andrus on Hudson in Hastings-on-Hudson. She was 84.

Sister Martha was at The Ursuline School, 1989-2004, where she introduced the peer ministry program and expanded the music department. She was provincial of the Ursuline Sisters’ Northeast Province, 1982-1988; taught at the Academy of Mount St. Ursula, the Bronx, 1964-1965.

She also served in Maine and Massachusetts.

Born in Boston, she entered the Ursuline Sisters in 1955 and professed final vows in 1962. She earned a bachelor’s degree from the College of New Rochelle, and a master’s from The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

Services are not planned at this time. Burial will be in St. Peter’s Cemetery, Sandwich, Mass.

Sister Martha Gleason, O.S.U.