Sister Barbara Nogiewich, IHM, (formerly known as Sister M. St. Barbara) of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary died on December 18 at Our Lady of Peace Residence in Scranton.
She was born on February 22, 1939, in Huntington Station, N.Y., and given the name Margaret Ann. She entered the IHM Congregation on September 7, 1956.
Sister Barbara served as a teacher at St. Joseph School in Danville from 1959 to 1960 and 1962 to 1966, and at schools in Maryland, New York, Connecticut and Pennsylvania.
She was also an instructor in the Educational Enrichment Institute at the IHM Center in Scranton, from 2012 to 2019; and in support services at the center from 2014 to 2019. From 2019 until the time of her death, Sister Barbara was a prayer minister at Our Lady of Peace Residence in Scranton.
She is preceded in death by a brother, John, and is survived by a sister, Barbara Ann of Huntington Station, N.Y., a niece and cousins.
The funeral Mass and graveside services were private. Interment was in St. Catherine’s Cemetery in Moscow, Pa.