Sr. Rose Imelda Rogan, OP
Mary Lilly Rogan was born July 31, 1913, at Fairfield, Kentucky to Martin and Mary Ann Jones Rogan. She was the oldest of six children. Her parents and her siblings, Nelly (Sr. Mary, OP), Charles, Martina, George, and Joseph preceded her in death.
She was taught by the Ursuline Sisters in grammar school and the first two years of high school at Fairfield, Kentucky. In her junior year she came to St. Catharine Academy where her mother had also attended school. She loved the Sisters at St. Catharine, especially Sister Rosine Price, her prefect, and Sister Francis O’Malley, her math teacher.
In September 1931, she entered St. Catharine Novitiate and received the name Sister Rose Imelda. She was professed April 30, 1933. The following year she remained at St. Catharine as a student.
She began her long teaching career at Holy Rosary Academy in Louisville. She then went to SS Simon & Jude School, Brooklyn; and from there to St. Agnes Academy, Memphis.
In 1943, she obtained her M.A. in Home Economics/Art Appreciation at Peabody College in Nashville.
Sr. Rose Imelda then returned to St. Catharine where she remained as teacher/principal until the Academy closed in 1971. That year “in lieu of Sr. Rose Imelda’s educational and sociological services to this area and her congregation” she received the Outstanding Alumna Award. As mentor of the Alumna she began the reorganization of the Alumna Association.
Sr. Rose Imelda was always the gracious, yet dignified southern lady who could rise to any occasion. She was not only a teacher, principal, and a mentor, but also a guide to groups of students that she accompanied to Washington, D.C., and to Europe.
When St. Catharine Academy closed in 1971, Sr. Rose Imelda became principal of St. Dominic School in Springfield until 1983.
In 1992, she moved to Sansbury Care Center. Sr. Rose Imelda was a very private person who enjoyed quiet times of reading and prayer. She had a great love for animals, especially horses, as evidenced by the number of pictures of horses in her room. Visiting kittens, and dogs reciprocated her love by making a beeline for her room.
There must be great rejoicing in heaven as Sr. Rose Imelda is reunited with her beloved “Sissy”—Sr. Mary, and all the rest of her family and religious community.
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