Mercy Sister Mary Corelita Kelly, 73

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated for Mercy Sister Mary Corelita Kelly on Dec. 4 in McAuley Hall Health Care Center, Watchung, where she died Nov. 30 at age 73.

Sister Corelita entered the Sisters of Mercy in 1948; she received her bachelor’s degree in English from Georgian Court College and her master’s degree in English from Catholic University, Washington, D.C.

She taught in elementary schools throughout New Jersey for 15 years and then became an educator at the high school level, teaching in Phillipsburg, Piscataway, Absecon and Red Bank. She also served as a vice-principal in Red Bank for several years.

Sister Corelita later served as librarian in Mount St. Mary Academy for 10 years. In 2001, she retired to McAuley Hall Health Care Center where she continued her ministry of prayer until her death.

Sister Corelita is survived by her sister-in-law, Shirley Kratzer, as well as several nieces and nephews.

Funeral arrangements were handled by Higgins Home for Funerals, Watchung. Interment was in Holy Redeemer Cemetery, South Plainfield

Anna Polczyk, mother of Trenton preist

Father Stanislaus Polczyk, parochial vicar of St. Stanislaus Parish and Holy Cross Parish, Trenton, was principal celebrant of a Mass of Christian Burial for his mother, Anna Polczyk, in St. Stephen Church, Perth Amboy, Nov. 26. She died Nov. 22.

One of ten children, she was the daughter of the late Mikolaj and Maria Litaniuk. She was born Dec. 18, 1918, in Stanislawow, Poland, about a month after an independent free Poland was established. With the help of Catholic Relief Services, she, her husband and son emigrated to the United States in 1951.

She was predeceased by her husband Thadeusz, who died in 1999. They were married for more than 51 years.

In addition to her priest-son, she is survived by two daughters and a son-in-law, Maria Polczyk and Marcia and Steven Bailey; three grandchildren, Michael, Mark and Matthew; a brother, Stanislaw Litaniuk, in Poland; and a sister Helena in the Ukraine. Also surviving are several nieces and nephews in Poland, Germany and the Ukraine.

Interment was in St. Stephen Cemetery, Keasbey, under the direction of Zylka Funeral Home, Perth Amboy.