PORTLAND — Sr. Ann Elizabeth McCreary passed away Friday, November 11, 2022, at St. Joseph’s Rehab in Portland.

Sr. Ann was born November 13, 1936, in the Bronx, N.Y., the daughter of Ernest and Anna (Mann) McCreary. She was a 1956 graduate of Julia Richmond High School in Manhattan, N.Y. After graduation she was employed as a telephone operator and then she went on to work at Little Philosopher School of Learning in East Orange, N.J. Sr. Ann also lived in Belleville, N.J. and finally in Newark.

Sr. Ann received a certificate of completion from the Post Graduate School of Nursing in Chicago, Illinois and Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., where she learned to do sign language. She would go on to sign the Masses in her parish when she returned to New Jersey.

Sr. Ann was preceded in death by her parents and her brother Trevor. She joined the Community of the Resurrection July, 19 1996, and made final profession July 2, 2003. In 1997, she became a member of the Dominican Laity and made final promises in 2001.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday, December 3, 2022, at the St. Joseph Church, 225 S. High Street in Bridgton. For those unable to attend in person, the service will be live streamed at https://vimeo.com/ event/2649674/4f5b3f4da8.

Arrangements are in the care of the Hall Funeral Home, 165 Quaker Ridge Road in Casco. www.hallfuneralhome.net.