Sister Maurice (Kathleen Ann) Naquin died at Seton Residence in Evansville, Indiana on March 3, 2025. Sister was born on April 5, 1934, in New Orleans, Louisiana and was one of eight children of Maurice Joseph and Louise Gentile (Olivier) Naquin. She graduated from the Academy of the Sacred Heart in New Orleans in 1949, entered the Daughters of Charity in 1955 and received a BS in Nursing from Marillac College in St. Louis, Missouri in 1964.
For fifty years, beginning in 1964 until 2014, Sister Maurice served as Head Nurse in Aitokuen Seishien Hospital for handicapped children in Wakayama, Japan, and as Nurse and English correspondent for International Adoptions, benefactors, and orphanage coordinator with the US Military’s Wolfhound soldiers at Seibo Infant Home and Holy Family Home in Osaka, Japan, and at Caritas Japan in Tokyo. Upon her return to the United States in 2014, Sister Maurice was missioned to Seton Residence in Evansville, Indiana to serve in the ministry of prayer until the time of her death.
On Thursday, March 13, a Wake Service was held in the Seton Residence Chapel, followed by the Mass of Christian Burial. Interment took place in St. Joseph Cemetery. Sister Maurice was preceded in death by her parents and her siblings Maurice Joseph, Jr., Rhea Pauline Gonzales, Norma Dempsey and Betty Mae. She is survived by her siblings Andre and Marc Naquin, Michell Fontenot, nieces and nephews and other loving family members, many friends and her Sisters in community.