St. Louis Review
August 17, 2001

Sr. Janson dies; longtime educator 
 
A memorial Mass will be celebrated for Sister Mary Janson, CSJ, at the Nazareth Living 
Center in St. Louis Sunday, Aug. 19. Sister Janson died Aug. 7 of infirmities of age at the 
Nazareth Living Center. She was 81. 

Born in St. Louis, she entered the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in 1936 and made 
her final profession in 1942. She earned her bachelor's degree in education from the Loretto 
Heights College in Denver. 

Sister Janson served as a teacher, administrator, pastoral assistant and religious education 
coordinator in schools and parishes throughout Colorado, Georgia, Missouri, Texas and 
Wisconsin. 

In the St. Louis Archdiocese, she taught at Most Holy Rosary and St. Patrick schools in 
St. Louis, Our Lady of the Presentation in Overland and taught and served as a school 
administrator at St. Anthony of Padua in South St. Louis. She moved to the Nazareth Living 
Center in 1986, where she was involved in community service until she retired there in 1992. 

Sister Janson donated her body to science. She has no immediate family survivors.