Helen Catherine Aiken

Birth Name Helen Catherine Aiken
Gender female
Age at Death 96 years, 9 months, 25 days

Narrative

96, of Ipswich, June 23, 2006. Sr. Aiken was born Helen Catherine Aiken on
August 29, 1909 in Charlestown, MA, daughter of the late George E. and Catherine
F. (Jenkins) Aiken. Survived by her sisters, Edna Laracy and Catherine Cardoza
both of East Boston as well as many nieces and nephews and her many Sisters of
Notre Dame. She was the sister of the late Mary Aiken, Rita Barlow, Edward and
George Aiken.

Sister entered the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur at Waltham
Novitiate on August 26, 1929, professed her First Vows on July 30, 1932 and her
Perpetual Vows on July 30, 1937. Sister received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from
Emmanuel College, Boston, and Masters in Education from Boston College, also
Graduate Courses at Fordham University, Brown University, and in Rome.

Sister's Ministries were in Lowell, Beverly, Chicopee, Lawrence, Dorchester, Worcester,
Providence, R.I. and Okayama, Japan.

Her Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated in Our Lady Queen Chapel on Wednesday, June 27, 2006 at 3:00 PM at the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur Residence, 30 Jeffrey's Neck Road, Ipswich, MA. Relatives and friends may pay their respects from 1:00 until 3:00 PM.
Wednesday. Burial will be in Notre Dame Cemetery, Ipswich. Memorial

Contributions may be made in her memory to the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur
Retirement Fund, 30 Jeffrey's Neck Rd., Ipswich, MA 01938. Arrangements by the
Conway, Cahill-Brodeur Funeral Home of PEABODY. For online obituary and
guestbook, visit www.ccbfuneral.com

Published in the Boston Globe on 6/26/2006, 06/27/2006

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Boston Globe, The (MA) - July 2, 2006

Deceased Name: SISTER C. AIKEN, 96 SERVED IN AREA CITIES

IPSWICH - Sister Catherine Aiken of Ipswich died June 23 in the St. Julie
Billiart Residential Care Center in Ipswich. She was 96.

Sister Aiken was born Helen Catherine Aiken in Charlestown. She entered the
Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur at Waltham Novitiate in 1929. She made her first
vows in 1932 and her perpetual vows in 1937.

She received a bachelor of arts degree from Emmanuel College in Boston and a
master's degree in education from Boston College. Sister Aiken took graduate
courses at Fordham University in New York and Brown University in Providence.
She also studied theology in Rome.

Her ministries were in Lowell, Beverly, Chicopee, Lawrence, Dorchester,
Worcester, Providence, and Okayama, Japan. Sister Aiken lived at the Sisters of
the Notre Dame residence in Ipswich following her retirement.

Sister Aiken leaves three sisters, Edna -Living- and Catherine -Living-, both of
East Boston, and Margaret Walsh of Boston; several nieces and nephews; and the
sisters of her order.

A funeral Mass was to be said Wednesday in Our Lady Queen Chapel at the Sisters
of Notre Dame de Namur residence. Burial was to be in Notre Dame Cemetery,
Ipswich.

Boston Globe, The (MA)
Date: July 2, 2006
Edition: THIRD
Page: 12
Record Number: 0607020026
Copyright (c) 2006 Globe Newspaper Company

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth August 29, 1909 Long Island Hospital, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States   1a
Event Note

Births Registered in Boston, 1909, page 184
August 29, 1909
Helen Catherine Aiken
at Long Island Hospital
Residence of parents: 115 Everett Street, (East) Boston
parents: George E [Aiken], laborer, and Catherine H Jenkins, both born in Boston

"Massachusetts, Births, 1841-1915," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FX7V-ZDZ : accessed 22 April 2015), Helen Catherine Aiken, 29 Aug 1909; citing Boston, Massachusetts, reference p 184 ln 8259, Massachusetts Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 2,315,294.

Census January 16, 1920 East Boston, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States 8? Jeffries Street 2a
Event Note

1920 Census Ward 2 (East) Boston, ED 41, sheet 10b
January 16, 1920
renting at 8? Jeffries Street

Edward Aiken, 26, watchman, boiler shop
Catherine Aiken, 26,
Helen Aiken, 10
Edward F Aiken, 7
Mary Aiken, 5
Reta Aiken, 3y 1m
Edna I Aiken, 2m

all born in Massachusetts, parents also

"United States Census, 1920," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFMC-BZN : accessed 22 April 2015), Edward Aiken, Boston Ward 2, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; citing sheet 10B, family 144, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,820,728.

Death June 23, 2006 Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States   3

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father George Edward AikenAugust 23, 1890September 14, 1959
Mother Catherine H. JenkinsMay 3, 1891March 24, 1966
         Helen Catherine Aiken August 29, 1909 June 23, 2006
    Brother     Edward F. Aiken July 22, 1912 October 27, 1956
    Sister     Mary L. Aiken September 14, 1914 July 9, 1994
    Sister     Rita Aiken December 22, 1916 January 23, 2000
    Sister     Edna E Aiken November 3, 1919 August 6, 2011
    Brother     George James Aiken 1923 March 8, 1964
    Sister     Catherine F “Kay” Aiken June 10, 1930 August 16, 2012
    Sister     Margaret Rosaleen Aiken November 13, 1932 July 20, 1969

Source References

  1. Massachusetts Births
      • Page: Helen Catherine Aiken, August 29, 1909, Boston, p 184
  2. 1920 United States Census
      • Page: Edward Aiken, Ward 2, Boston, ED 41, sheet 10b
  3. death notice