Sister Mary Katharine Brent dies at 106

Sister Mary Katharine Brent, an Oblate Sister of Providence, died Oct. 7 at the age of 106.

A wake service will be held at 10 a.m. on Oct. 19 at Mount Providence Convent in Arbutus, followed by a funeral Mass at 11 a.m.

Born Mary Elizabeth Brent, she grew up in St. Joseph Parish in Alexandria, Va. She joined the Oblate Sister of Providence in Baltimore in 1941, making her first religious profession in 1944 and her final profession in 1950.

Sister Katharine held a master’s degree in education from Marygrove College in Detroit. Her teaching career included roles at St. Monica School and St. Francis Xavier School in Baltimore, as well as the Mount Providence Reading Center in Arbutus. She also served in Minnesota, New Jersey, Mississippi, Florida, Illinois, and Washington, D.C.