TACOMA, Wash. – Sister Anne Charles, formerly Sister Philomene Marie, died Dec. 5 in St. Ann Convent in Tacoma, Wash. She was 81 and had been a professed member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia for 63 years.
Sister Anne worked at St. Francis Hospital in Wilmington from 1975-94. She also ministered health care in the Archdiocese of Seattle and in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Oregon, and in education in California and Oregon.
Services will be Dec. 15 in Tacoma. Donations in her name can be made to the Sisters of St. Francis Foundation, 609 S. Convent Road, Aston, PA 19014.
