Sister Dolora Marie Louis

Sister Dolora Marie Louis, 98, of the Bernardine Sisters of the Third Order of St Francis, died of natural causes on Friday morning, July 7, 2023, at St. Joseph Villa, Reading, PA, where she had resided since 2015.

Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, she was a daughter of the late Louis and Louise (Albert) Louis.

Sister Dolora Marie entered the Bernardine Sisters on June 26, 1965, and had begun her 59th year of religious life.

She served her ministry in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Washington D.C. and Liberia, West Africa in food service and domestic work.

Sister is survived by the members of her Bernardine Franciscan Congregation. There are no surviving immediate family members.

Viewing at St Joseph Villa, Reading, PA on Friday, July 14, 2023, at 2:00 pm. Mass on Saturday, July 15, 2023, at 11:00 a.m. at St. Joseph Villa Chapel, Reading, PA followed by burial in the Bernardine Franciscan Sisters' Cemetery, Mount Alvernia, Reading, PA.

The Kopicki Bradley Funeral Home & Crematory, Inc., Reading, PA is in charge of arrangements.