Sister Anne Carlino, OSF, (age 88) died on September 4, 2024, at St. Francis Convent.

Sister Anne was born in Brooklyn, NY, on March 15, 1936, the daughter of Theodore and Vivian (Terrano) Carlino.  She entered the Hospital Sisters of St. Francis on September 8, 1954, and professed her first vows on June 13, 1957. Sister Anne was a 1961 graduate of St. John’s Hospital School of Nursing. She earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing from St. Louis University in 1968 and a master’s degree in health care administration from Sangamon State University in 1973.

Sister Anne served in nursing leadership in several Illinois hospitals and at St. Francis Convent. From 1969 to 1982, she was instrumental in planning and developing the open-heart surgery, intensive care coronary units, and cardiopulmonary units at HSHS St. John’s Hospital. For three months, beginning in January 1980, she served the Cambodian refugees in Thailand, establishing assessment clinics for feeding women, children, and malnourished adults.

Sister Anne was community services coordinator of Catholic Charities in Springfield, IL, from 1987 through 1999, and while there, she was named the Copley First Citizen in November of 1996. She also facilitated the building of a new structure for St. John’s Breadline, which was completed in 1994. In July 1999, she co-founded the San Damiano Mission in Kemondo, Bukoba, Tanzania, and served there until May 2017.

She was preceded in death by her parents. She is survived by a brother, Ted A. Carlino of Riverton, IL, several cousins, and her Franciscan Sisters with whom she shared her life for more than 70 years.

Visitation will be held at St. Francis Convent from 4-7 p.m. with a Wake Service at 6 p.m. on Sunday, September 8, 2024. The Eucharistic Celebration and Rite of Christian Burial will be celebrated by Father Richard Chiola on Monday, September 9, at 10:30 a.m. in the St. Clare of Assisi Adoration Chapel with burial in Crucifixion Hill Cemetery at St. Francis Convent.

To read her story from 2001, please click here.

Staab Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.