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- Louise Godal
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Louise Godal was born November 30, 1924, in Pobedium, Slovak Republic to Michael Godal and Josephine Feranec. She was the eldest of eight children, having six brothers and one sister. Louise Godal was received into the Congregation of Sisters of St. Joseph of London August 25, 1943. She made her first profession August 25, 1945, and her final profession that same day in 1948. After dedicating herself to religious life she took on the religious name Sister Emerita Godal.
She graduated from grade school and high school and received training in being a homemaker. In 1970 she was trained as a Food Service Supervisor at the Catholic Hospital Association, St. Louis, Missouri and in 1972 she received Dietary Service Training at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. She also trained at the Theological Institute of St. Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin in 1991.
Sister Emerita served in Ingersoll, Ontario from 1945 to 1947 and in Delhi, Ontario from 1947 to 1950. She then returned to London at Mount St. Joseph, the motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Joseph of London, from 1950 to 1964. There, she taught Home Economics at Mount St. Joseph Academy from 1956 to 1964. She travelled to Killam, Alberta in 1964 where she worked in dietetics at Killam General Hospital until 1971. After that, she dedicated herself to working as a homemaker in Sarnia, Ontario from 1971 to 1977 and in St. Thomas, Ontario from 1977 to 1979. Sister Emerita Godal then worked as a Pastoral Minister at Blessed Sacrament Church in Chatham, Ontario in 1979. She then went on to be the Pastoral Minister for Blessed Sacrament Parish in Chatham, Ontario from 1996 to 2001. She then returned to London, Ontario in 2001 and worked as seamstress at the motherhouse. She passed November 11, 2024.
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Pobedium, Slovak Republic
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Sisters of St. Joseph of London Archives
Federation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Canada Biography Database