Sister Marie Cecile DiTullio (born Italia Antoinette), age 96of the Sisters of St. Francis in Oldenburg, Indiana, died on November 12, 2026, at the Motherhouse in Oldenburg, Indiana. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, she was the youngestchild of nine born to Alessandro and Elena (nee: Forni)DiTullio.
Sister Marie Cecile began her school days attending Taft Elementary and Holy Name for grades K-8. Her high school years began at Our Lady of Angels, followed by Immaculate Conception Academy in Oldenburg. After high school, she entered the Sisters of St. Francis community in 1948, taking her final vows in 1954. She then went on to Marian University to get her degree in teaching. She laterattended Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary for their Pastoral Counseling program.
Sister Marie Cecile spent 22 years teaching and playing the organ, sometimes giving private lessons. She then became a resident of Our Lady of Angels in Cincinnati, Ohio where she was bookstore manager and organist while pursuing classes in Clinical Pastoral Education at Good Samaritan Hospital and Bethesda Hospital. After a summer of those studies, she was hired at St. Elizabeth Hospital. When St. Elizabeth built a hospital in Edgewood, Kentucky, she was asked to undertake a Pastoral Care role at the new facility.
Due to back problems, she left the hospital to return to the Motherhouse to focus on her own health. During her stay in Oldenburg, she was able to take classes for the master’s program in Pastoral Counseling at Mt. St. Mary’s. She then became a certified National Chaplain. While visiting with family, Sister Marie Cecile came across anopportunity to become a chaplain for St. Vincent Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida, where she remained for eight years, also playing organ for special occasions. She then returned to Cincinnati to take care of her sister for four years.
Sister Marie Cecile returned to the Motherhouse in 2002. While here, she worked on restocking table supplies in thedining room, lectored at Mass, and took Holy Communion to Sisters in St. Clare Hall. She also enjoyed helping with driving, especially taking Sisters back and forth to Kroger when they volunteered to ring the Salvation Army bell at Christmas. She also found she enjoyed the freedom of having her own schedule as a retired Sister.
Sister Marie Cecile is survived by many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, sisters Anna (Bernard) Sora, Malvina (Charles) Roach, Jeanette (Frank) Pangallo, and Adeline (John) Ifko; brothers Gerald (Edna) DiTullio, John DiTullio, George (Jeanette) DiTullio, and Eugene (Evelyn) DiTullio; nephews John Pangallo, John Sora, Edward Roach, Jerry DiTullio, and niece Mary Ellen Sora Wesley.
Prayer and visitation will be Tuesday, November 17, at1:00 p.m. followed by Mass at 2:00 p.m., all at the conventchapel. The burial will be at the Motherhouse Cemetery in Oldenburg. For those unable to attend, services will be live streamed at https://youtube.com/live/OthZh1L6crY?feature=share.
Memorials may be made to the Sisters of St. Francis, P.O. Box 100, Oldenburg, Indiana 47036 Donate Online – SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS (oldenburgfranciscans.org).
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