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June 6, 2005 
VOL.
43, NO. 11Oakland,
CA
Sister Mary Petra Berg,
S.N.J.M.
Holy Names Sister Mary Petra, a longtime educator who taught briefly in
the Oakland Diocese, died May 9. She was 84
She taught at Oakland’s Holy Names College from 1953-54 and Holy
Names High School from 1954-55. She also served at schools in Los Angeles,
Santa Monica, Alhambra and Pasadena.
Additionally she was an assistant to administrators in her province for
20 years.
Survivors include her eight brothers and sisters, Cecilia, Walter, Pauline,
John, Betty, Lawrence, Martin and Father Ralph Berg.
The funeral Mass was held May 11 at the Convent of the Holy Names in Los
Gatos. Burial was at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Hayward. Memorial donations
may be sent to the Ministry Fund, Sisters of the Holy Names, P.O. Box
907, Los Gatos, CA 95031.
Sister Marie Theresa Lehner,
O.P.
Mission San Jose Dominican Sister Marie Theresa Lehner, a longtime educator
in elementary and high schools in the Oakland Diocese, died May 11 at
the Sisters’ Motherhouse in Fremont.
She was 95 and had been a religious for 75 years.
Sister Lehner, formerly known as Sister Mary Theophane, was a classroom
teacher for 39 years. She also served as a principal. She worked at St.
Mary of the Palms School in Fremont, St. Elizabeth Elementary and St.
Elizabeth High School in Oakland, and in schools in San Francisco, San
Gabriel, Los Angeles and Oregon. Following her retirement she was a librarian
and receptionist at a school in southern California.
The funeral Mass was held May 16 at the Dominican Sisters Chapel in Fremont.
Burial was at the Dominican Sisters Cemetery. Memorials may be made to
the Dominican Sisters Circles of Caring or the Mother Pia Backes Education
Fund, 433326 Mission Blvd., Fremont.
Sister Anne Russell, O.P.
Adrian Dominican Sister Anne Russell, a former elementary and high school
teacher and a diocesan director of campus ministry, died May 20 at the
Dominican Life Center in Adrian, MI after a long illness. She was 71 years
and in the 53rd year of her religious profession.
She held a bachelor of arts degree from Siena Heights College (University)
in Adrian, a master of education degree from the University of San Francisco,
a master of religious education degree from the University of St. Thomas
in Houston, and a doctor of ministry degree from the Jesuit School of
Theology in Berkeley.
As an elementary teacher, Sister Russell taught at All Saints School in
Hayward (1953-62) as well as schools in San Francisco and Arizona. She
became an administrator at Moreau Catholic High School in Hayward in 1969
and also taught Latin and religion there until 1975. That year she began
working in college campus ministry.
Over the next two decades Sister Russell was based at the former Campus
Ministry Center at the California State University, Hayward. While serving
as director there, she coordinated campus ministry for the diocese. She
also worked in campus ministry at Chabot College in Hayward.
When the campus ministry center was closed in 1996, she joined the hospitality
department at Dominican Hospital in Michigan.
Sister Russell, who had no immediate family members, was buried in the
Congregation’s cemetery in Adrian.
Memorial gifts may be made to the Adrian Dominican Sisters, 1257 East
Siena Heights Dr., Adrian, MI 49221 or Dominican Hospital Foundation,
1555 Soquel Dr., Santa Cruz, CA 95065.
Father Joseph Scanagatta, SDB
Salesian Father Joseph Scanagatta, who served in the San Francisco Province
of his community, died May 9 at the Mercy Retirement and Care Center in
Oakland at the age of 86.
A native of Schiavon, Italy, he made his first profession in 1937 and
was ordained to the priesthood in 1947. After teaching for several years
in Italy, he worked in Australia, Canada and the U.S., first coming to
the San Francisco Province in 1949. Among his assignments were the parishes
of SS. Peter and Paul, and Corpus Christi, both in San Francisco, and
St. Dominic Salvio in Bellflower.
He was part of the provincial residence community in San Francisco from
March 1990 until he moved to Mercy Center in April 2003.
The funeral Mass was held at SS. Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco
on May 23. Burial followed at the Salesian Cemetery in Richmond.
