Janina B. Wieczorek

The late SISTER JANINA M. BEATRIX WIECZOREK, LSIC, died on November 29, 2025, in St. Joseph Nursing Home in Woodbridge, NJ, fortified by the Rites of the Holy Church.  She was 87 years of age and served in the Congregation of the Little Servant Sisters of the Immaculate Conception for 67 years.

Born on February 3, 1938 in Lodz, Poland, she was baptized Janina in the parish of St. Casimir, where the Little Servant Sisters operated a preschool. During World War II, her father was arrested and died in a Nazi concentration camp. Sister Beatrix and her two brothers were raised by her mother and grandmother. Sister Beatrix applied for admission to the Congregation at the age of 15, but she waited almost five years for her mother's consent. During this time, she graduated from high school and began working as a receptionist at a medical clinic to support her family and actively participated in her parish.  She entered the Congregation of the Little Servant Sisters at the Motherhouse in Stara Wieś, Brzozow County, in 1958, made her first profession of vows in 1961, and her final vows in 1964.

As a second-year novice and temporary professed, Sister Beatrix helped in two kindergartens of the Congregation and then served as a catechist.  She returned to Łódź in August 1962 where after her mother’s death she took care of her grandmother and worked for a year in the nursing home where her grandmother lived.  Sister then studied nursing for two years to 1965 and then to 1972 worked at a nursing home in Lodz. 

The next chapter in Sister Beatrix’s life was her service in the American Province.  She learned English for two years from 1972 and later took courses (R.N. and B.Sc.N.) to be able to practice nursing at the United States. She also took courses to qualify as an administrator.  She served as a provincial councilor and superior in two communities. She originally worked from St. Joseph Convent in Woodbridge and environs, serving the sick in the Mount Carmel Visiting Nursing Service, two terms overall for six years until 1983, and eventually her assignment was at Cherry Hill, St. Mary's Catholic Home, where she worked as a charge nurse until 1988, and then as administrator of the Camden diocesan Nursing Home for the Elderly. From 2010, she continued to provide pastoral care for residents.  With declining health, she lived in the community of the Provincialate in Cherry Hill until 2019, and for the last six years of her life, she was a resident of St. Joseph Nursing home in Woodbridge, New Jersey. Sister Beatrix is remembered as a devoted, energetic member of her Congregation which she loved in the Lord. Also, as a compassionate, caring nurse, who when residents were near death, would pray day or night by their side. A joyful religious of faith, she was ready to welcome all members of society.

The Viewing and prayers will take place at 9:00 AM and the Holy Mass of Christian Burial at 11:00 AM on Thursday, December 4, 2025 at St. Joseph's Assisted Living Chapel,1-3 St. Joseph Terrace, Woodbridge, NJ 0709. Interment to follow at St. Joseph Cemetery, 240 Lower Landing Road, Blackwood/Chews Landing, NJ.

Memorial contributions in Sister Beatrix’s memory may be sent to the Little Servant Sisters, Provincialate, 1000 Cropwell Road, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003.

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