After completing high school in Douglas, Sister Teresa Rice continued her education and graduated as an RN and immediately began nursing in Barrhead, Alberta for the next eight years. She returned to Ontario and prepared for apostolic work in Peru for the Congregation’s Mission. She proceeded to work in the medical field in Peru, as the Director of the Medical Clinic. When she returned to Canada, she again headed out west to Regina and back to Barrhead, Alberta to nurse.
For the next part of her life Sister Teresa was active in Pastoral Care and Vocation work, beginning in Penticton, British Columbia, continuing in Barry’s Bay, Deep River and Des Joachims. She served her congregation as a councillor and then she held the positions of Pastoral Animator and Parish Administrator in St. Anne’s Parish in Des Joachims. In her last few years in Des Joachims, there was no resident priest, so she was responsible for providing the religious needs of the people in that area.
Sister Teresa always had a passion for recruitment of new members to religious life. She loved spending time in the outdoors, appreciating all of God’s gifts in nature. She was fondly known and will always be remembered for her calm, gentle, loving, and positive nature.