Sister Myrtle Mary Calvert
Sister Myrtle Mary Calvert (a.k.a. Sister Mary Raymond, M.H.S.) entered into eternal rest on January 21, 2018, at age 91. She was born in New Orleans at home on July 23,1926, the only daughter of the late Louise Mary Tujague and William Henry Calvert, Sr. She was predeceased by her brother, William Henry Calvert, Jr. She is survived by her brother, Raymond Neil Calvert; her sister-in-law, Joyce Johnson Calvert; her two nieces, Sylvia Calvert Mosman of Dallas, Texas; Joy Calvert Pecot of Waggaman, Louisiana; fellow nuns, and many cousins and friends. Soon after graduating from Our Lady Star of the Sea Grammar School in 1940, she entered as a postulant in the Congregation of the Sisters of the Most Holy Sacrament in Lafayette. She professed simple perpetual vows in the congregation in 1943, followed by final vows in 1948. In the fall of 1943 she began her teaching career in Crowley. Assignments in various schools were in New Orleans, Pineville, Lafayette, Chalmette, Arnaudville, Birmingham, Alabama, and Pascagoula, Mississippi. In 1959, she earned a BA in Education from the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now ULL) in Lafayette and a MA in Education from the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. She held Type A teaching certificates in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. She loved music and musicals, enjoyed singing, playing piano and guitar, as well as teaching piano and guitar. In the early 1970s, while she was vice-principal at school at Our Lady of Victories Church in Pascagoula, she played the role of Mother Abbess in a local production of “The Sound of Music.” Singing ‘Climb Every Mountain’ she said that the “song symbolizes anyone’s vocation, particularly mine.”After a period of discernment she requested an Indult of Secularization (laicization) from Rome. This was granted her in 1983 and she returned to lay status. Her teaching career continued with the Saint Martin Parish public schools. After fifty years devoted to teaching, she retired in 1993. Although she was living as a lay person since 1983, she recommitted herself and professed private vows in 1993. She never left her consecrated life. Always called “sister” by her family, she will ever be remembered as Sister Mary. The family would like to thank the entire staff of Bethany MHS Health Care in Lafayette for their loving care over the past thirteen years and Hospice of Acadiana for their diurnal care in Sister Mary’s transition. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Sisters of the Most Holy Sacrament are requested. Mailing address: 400 St. Julien Avenue, Lafayette, LA 70506-4622. Visitation will be held at JACOB SCHOEN & SON, 3827 Canal St, New Orleans, LA 70119, on Saturday, January 27, 2018, from 10:00 until 11:00 am, followed by a Mass in the J. Garic Schoen Chapel. Interment in Lake Lawn Park Cemetery will take place immediately after the liturgy. To view and sign the family guestbook, please visit www.schoenfh.com.

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