Sister Norah died peacefully, at Presentation Manor on September 12, 2022, in her ninety-sixth year of life and her seventy-seventh as a member of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Loretto Sisters). Predeceased by her parents, Claude Burns and Helena O’Brien; and her brothers Rev. Kenneth Burns, C.S.C., Rev. Edgar Burns, S.J., and John Claude Burns, she was the only daughter in a family of four.<\/p>\n
Sister Norah taught in separate schools in Ontario and Saskatchewan for twenty-five years, and pioneered a mission school at Pic Mobert Indigenous Reserve in northwestern Ontario for four years, after which time she discerned a call to nursing, and served in that role for many years, as well as serving as treasurer at Loretto College.<\/p>\n
Friends may call at Presentation Manor, 61 Fairfax Crescent, Scarborough, on Tuesday, September 20th, at 1:00 p.m. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated in Presentation Manor Chapel at 1:30 p.m. Interment at Mount Hope Cemetery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sister Norah died peacefully, at Presentation Manor on September 12, 2022, in her ninety-sixth year of life and her seventy-seventh as a member of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Loretto Sisters). Predeceased by her parents, Claude Burns and Helena O’Brien; and her brothers Rev. Kenneth Burns, C.S.C., Rev. Edgar Burns, S.J., and John …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2663],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obits"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 15:11:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55930,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55929\/revisions\/55930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}