2025 Jubiliarian
With her playful and loving presence and unrivaled “corn toss” skills, Sister Jane Stephen Rosko brings delight to every interaction, inviting you to share in her zeal for life’s simplest joys: watering plants, sharing stories, feeding the birds, being together.
Sister Jane taught in parochial schools for 13 years before setting off for a remote village in Amazonas, Brazil, where she spent the next six years teaching catechism and staffing a walk-in clinic—not because she was a nurse, but because “I was the only one of the three Sisters who wasn’t afraid of blood.”
Returning to the U.S., Sister Jane became an occupational therapist and moved to Thelma, KY, helping mostly working-age patients recover from injuries suffered in coal mines, cotton mills, and car accidents. She later served as assistant director of physical therapy at Forest Hills Senior Center in South Fork, PA.
“Even if we just come out with making them feel a little better about themselves for being alive, it’s worth it,” she says of the difficult but rewarding ministry. “I always encouraged them to never give up hope.”
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