obit-sister-Thaddeus-Clancy.jpgSister M. Thaddeus Clancy, OSF, age 82, of the Hospital Sisters of St. Francis died March 2 at St. John’s Hospital, Springfield.

Sister M. Thaddeus, the former Josephine Louise Clancy, was born in Berkley Village, Mich., on March 22, 1926, the daughter of Edward Joseph and Catherine Beaghan Clancy. She entered the congregation on Sept. 8, 1942, and professed her religious vows on June 13, 1945.

Sister M. Thaddeus was a 1949 graduate of St. John’s Hospital School of Nursing. She served the community as a registered nurse at hospitals in Illinois. From 1965 through 1988, she was a nurse at St. Mary’s Hospital in Decatur. At the time of her death, she was assigned to the Motherhouse Health Services and was responsible for the medications for the sisters.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by two brothers: Charles Clancy and Jerry Clancy; and six sisters: Mercedes Foster, Helen Regan, Loretta Schmidt, Dorothy Chaffee, Christina Berneker, and Margaret Joan Claussen.

She is survived by two sisters, Sister Kathleen Clancy, OSF, of Alliance, Neb., and her twin sister, Theresa Vespa of Naperville; one brother-in-law, Wulfran Regan of Lawndale, Calif.; many nieces and nephews, great nieces and nephews; and her Franciscan sisters with whom she shared her life for over 66 years.

The Eucharistic Celebration and Rite of Christian Burial was celebrated by Father Vincent Callahan, OFM, on March 6 in St. Clare of Assisi Adoration Chapel at the Motherhouse. Burial was in Crucifixion Hill Cemetery.

Kirlin-Egan and Butler Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.