Pioneer sister with Tanzania links dies

Contact: Ms. Susan M. Palmer, Communications Mgr.                      Date: April 14, 2015

    Phone: 914-941-7575, ext. 5687                  

 E-mail: spalmer@mksisters.org

 

Sister M. James Florence Blanchard,

Educator and Rural Community Developer in Tanzania,

Dies at 86

 

Maryknoll, NY --  Sister M. James Florence Blanchard, MM, died Tuesday, April 14, 2015, at the Maryknoll Sisters Center.  She was 86 years old...

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