Sister Clare Marie (Loretta Clare) Angermaier, age 92, died at Villa St. Michael in Emmitsburg, Maryland on May 7, 2026. She was born on July 30, 1933, the ninth child of ten children, in Baltimore, Maryland to Helen Mary (Healy) and Otto Carl Angermaier. She graduated from Seton High School in Baltimore in 1951. Sister Clare Marie entered the Daughters of Charity on December 31, 1953, in Emmitsburg from St. Benedict Parish in Baltimore. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in English with a minor in Elementary Education from St. Joseph College in Emmitsburg in 1966 and her Master of Education in Theology from Boston College in Boston, Massachusetts in 1975.
Following initial formation, Sister Clare Marie was missioned to serve as an elementary teacher at St. John’s School in Albany, New York, St. Christine School in Youngstown, Ohio and St. Michael School in Baltimore. She next taught at Elizabeth Seton High School in Bladensburg, Maryland. Sister Clare Marie served as Principal at Holy Cross Regional School in Lynchburg, Virginia followed by an Assistant Principalship at Seton High School in Baltimore from 1976 to 1985. From there, she was missioned again to Elizabeth Seton High School in Bladensburg where she served for the next seven years. After an internship in Mission Services at Sacred Heart Hospital in Cumberland, Maryland, Sister Clare Marie was sent to Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola, Florida to serve as Vice President of Mission Integration. From 1998 to 2007, she served as Provincial Councillor and Assistant for the Emmitsburg (Southeast) Province of the Daughters of Charity. Her next mission was in Jacksonville, Florida in Mission Integration at St. Luke’s Hospital and St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Southside. In 2014, she returned to Emmitsburg to serve in Seton Heritage Ministries (Shrine). Her older sister, Sister Joan described Sister Clare Marie as a “faithful Daughter of Charity who loved the Community and her family.” In 2019, she was missioned to Villa St. Michael for the Ministry of Prayer, a ministry she held until her death.
Sister Clare Marie was preceded in death by her parents; sisters, Helen Stromberg, Mary Dorothy Lutz, Margaret Regina Grimm and Mary Bernadette Lawler Middleton; brothers, Robert and John Lawrence Angermaier. She is survived by her sisters, Sister Joan Angermaier, DC, Sister Mary Frances Angermaier, SSND, and Myra McNamara, many nieces and nephews, friends and her Sisters in Community.
A wake service was held on Monday, May 11 in the Villa Chapel in Emmitsburg. The Mass of Christian Burial took place on Tuesday, May 12 in the Basilica of the National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Seton. Burial followed in the Sacred Heart Cemetery on the grounds.