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Sister Jane Margaret “Marg” Lynch, SNJM
M. Marguerite Elizabeth
June 18, 1939 – January 6, 2025
Sister Jane Margaret “Marg” Lynch, SNJM departed this life on January 6, 2025 in San Jose, California.
Sister Marg celebrated 85 years of life and 65 years of her religious profession.
A Mass of Resurrection will be held Saturday, March 1, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. at Holy Spirit Chapel in Campbell, California.
Burial will take place at a later date at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Hayward, California.
Please join us in prayers of thanksgiving for the life of Sister Margaret (Marg) Lynch. Marg was 85 years old and had been professed since 1959.
Margaret began her life as a vowed religious in the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston. She taught elementary school for two years, but her call was to be a nurse, so she left the classroom and studied nursing. She served as a nurse in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Then in the early 1980s Marg again felt the call of the spirt and took CPE (chaplaincy) training. In the 1990s she moved to California for some sabbatical time. It was during this period that she came to know our sisters at St. Augustine’s Convent and began her relationship with our congregation. She felt at home in California and expanded her ministry to include spiritual direction and grief counseling. In 2002 she formally transferred to our congregation.
We remember Marg as a loving, kind and supportive person. She enjoyed spending time with people doing simple things such as going out for lunch, playing Bingo and Scrabble, and spending time visiting with residents at Merrill. It was important to her to be present to people, to support them on their life journeys. Marg had a big heart and a big world view. She was deeply compassionate and expressed concern for those most vulnerable and hurting in society. Attending concerts, musicals and the opera was a source of joy for her. Marg loved the ocean. All water renewed her spirit, but especially spending time sitting in the sun by the ocean. We are grateful for Marg’s presence in our life as a faithful friend, a woman of deep prayer, a faithful sister in the CSJ and the SNJM congregations, and as an example of joyful presence. May her memory be blessed.