Sister Ann E. Fitzpatrick, C.S.J., a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Brentwood, L.I., for 70 years, died Feb. 10 in Maria Regina Residence, Brentwood. She entered the congregation from Holy Family parish, Park Slope, in 1943. She attended St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, and earned her master’s degree and doctorate in education administration from St. John’s University, Jamaica.
Formerly known as Sister Charles Veronica, she taught at St. Pascal Baylon, St. Albans, 1945-49; St. Augustine, Park Slope, 1949-65; St. John the Evangelist, Park Slope, 1965-66; St. Thomas Aquinas, Park Slope, 1966-68; and was principal at St. Virgilius, Broad Channel, 1970-71.
Other ministries included assistant to the dean at St. John’s University, Jamaica, 1969-70; an administrator in Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES), L.I., 1971-81; an administrator in the teacher center at Hofstra University, Hempstead, L.I., 1981-82.
In the Diocese of Metuchen, N.J., she worked to establish the Office of Superintendent of Schools, holding the position of deputy superintendent for six years.
From 1988 through 2001, she served as the associate dean of the Graduate School of Education at the College of New Rochelle, instituting programs on behalf of the college.
Her early work in the primary grades gave her the impetus to write a series of children’s books, which were religious in nature.
A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Feb. 16 in Maria Regina Chapel. Interment followed in Calvary Cemetery, Brentwood.
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