Sister Michael Marie Fitzpatrick, S.S.N.D., a member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame for 62 years, died July 2, at Norwalk Hospital in Norwalk, Conn. She was 84. 

Born as Margaret Estelle Fitzpatrick in Brooklyn, she attended P.S. # 152, Brooklyn; St. Saviour H.S., Park Slope; and the College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, N.J. She entered the School Sisters of Notre Dame Candidature in Baltimore, Md., in 1946.  She entered the Novitiate the following year and professed Aug. 3, 1948.

She taught in Tampa, Fla., and Baltimore, until 1970.  After she earned a second master’s degree, this time specializing in religious education, she spent one year, 1970-71, at St. Raphael, East Meadow, L.I. and the following year at St. Joseph H.S., Trumbull, Conn. 

In 1972, she became involved in the religious education program at St. Mary’s in Closter, N.J., and remained there until 1980.  At the end of that year, she also served as retreat director at Queen of Apostles Retreat Center in Sag Harbor, L.I. 

For the next 20 years, she worked in pastoral ministry in Connecticut.

She moved to Villa Notre Dame, Wilton, Conn., in 2002, where she volunteered and lived a life of prayer.

Interment was in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Bethel, Conn.

Anthony “Tony” Snow, former White House press secretary and a prominent journalist who worked both in print and broadcast, died July 12 at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C., after a long bout with colon cancer. He was 53.

A private funeral service was celebrated July 17 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.

President George W. Bush, for whom Snow worked as press secretary, attended.

Snow worked for numerous newspapers, holding a variety of editorial positions, from 1979 until 1991. Snow served as editorial page editor for two dailies, the Detroit News and later the Washington Times. In 1991, he left newspapers to become deputy assistant to the president for communications and director of speechwriting for President George H.W. Bush. After leaving the White House, Snow continued to write editorials for the Detroit News and USA Today while also working in television.

After working with the first President Bush, Snow went on to work briefly with ABC News before settling in with the Fox News Channel for many years. Snow anchored the “Fox News Sunday” show beginning in 1996.

He is survived by his wife, Jill, whom he married in 1987, and their three children, son Robbie and daughters Kendall and Kristi.

back to top