Sr. Mary Margaret Miller, a former registered nurse, entered eternal life on Oct. 25, 2026. After joining the Dominican Sisters in 1993, she spent her religious life caring for the sick as director of nurses at Sacred Heart Home in Philadelphia and St. Rose’s Home in Manhattan, and returned to Rosary Hill Home in 2018
Sr. Mary Margaret was born on April 17, 1953, in Louisville, Ky. She worked as a registered nurse before she entered the Congregation.
She entered the Dominican Sisters Congregation of St. Rose of Lima on Oct. 7, 1993. She professed her first vows on Sept. 14, 1995, and made her final profession of vows on Sept. 14, 2000.
She remained at Rosary Hill Home until September 2002, when she began serving at Sacred Heart Home in Philadelphia for 13 years and at St. Rose’s Home in Manhattan for three years before its closure. She served as director of nurses at both homes. She returned to Rosary Hill Home in 2018.
Sr. Mary Margaret loved her vocation, our patients, and her community. She was genuinely interested in everyone and had great compassion for others. She bore her suffering bravely and courageously. She was surrounded by her family and her religious sisters when she entered eternal life on Oct. 25, 2026.
She will be received at the Chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary at Rosary Hill Home in Hawthorne on Thursday, Oct. 29, at 4 p.m. A wake will follow until 8 p.m. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:15 a.m. Friday, Oct. 30, and interment will be at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne.