Sister Mary Jo Toll, SND
(Formerly Sister Mary Teresa)
March 22, 1944 – February 16, 2025
Professed August 18, 1964
Sister Mary Jo was in her 61st year of religious life and entered the Sisters of Notre Dame in 1964.
Sister left her two years of elementary school teaching at Christ the King and St. Mary Schools in Toledo to begin teaching at Notre Dame Academy in 1968. There she specialized in French, social studies and religion, as well as becoming a college instructor of political science at the Notre Dame Extension College. When she began teaching at St. Wendelin, Fostoria, in 1984 worked with women in a migrant camp and discovered there were over 100 migrant camps in Northwest Ohio.
Sister Mary Jo then became the director of En Camino Ministry for the Diocese of Toledo and co-director in the Office of Hispanic Ministries. She broadened her outreach in 2007, when she became the Sisters of Notre Dame Representative as an NGO at the United Nations, a position she held from 2007-2015. There she advocated for women and girls through systemic change and empowerment critical for their economic and political rights. She also participated in a Forum of Catholic Inspired NGOs at New Challenges in a Globalizing World in Rome in 2010. Back in Ohio, Sister continued in migrant and refugee outreach from 2016-2023.
Services will be at the Sisters of Notre Dame Center at 5900 Davis Road, Whitehouse, OH on Saturday, March 1 with Sharing of Memories at 10:00 and Memorial Mass at 11:00.
Memorial Mass: https://boxcast.tv/view/memorial-mass-for-sr-mary-jo-toll-snd-nyi2oq2sxjq14atccc6b
