Sister Rosella

Sister Rosella Jakubco, M.S.C.
1915-2006
To her six siblings, Margaret Jakubco was their oldest and very devoted sister. They all attended Saint Michael School in Lansford, PA. Her faith-filled parents supported Sister Rosella’s entrance into the convent along with her sister, Sister Frances, who joined the M.S. C. Sisters a year later. The youngest child, Bernard, later became an MSC priest.
Sister Rosella is remembered by her colleagues for her generous, fun-filled spirit, and her dedication to her students. Like the earliest M.S.C. sisters who arrived in the United States in 1908 and who taught the Jakubco children, Sister Rosella began her many years of teaching among the children of Slovak immigrants in SS. Cyril and Methodius School in Bethlehem. Sister Rosella knew how to balance her life of prayer and service to her students with a sense of humor and wit.
To her students, Sister Rosella is remembered as an excellent teacher. For 26 years she taught mathematics at the secondary level in two of the Allentown Diocese high schools: Central Catholic in Allentown and Nativity B.V.M. High School in Pottsville. Before she retired to the motherhouse in 2001, Sister Rosella helped in her home parish and school.
Sister Rosella was looking forward to the celebration of her 70th anniversary, but that would not be in this life. On April 11, 2006 in the presence of her Sisters and family, Sister Rosella went home. She was ninety years old.
Information provided by Sr. Lorraine Molchanow, MSC