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Sheila Power Potter, a former Vatican delegate to the United Nations, died Aug. 23 at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx. She was 78.
She was appointed a Vatican delegate to the United Nations in 1993. She also worked in the archdiocese’s Family Life/Respect Life office for many years as Natural Family Planning coordinator.
Born in Red Bank, N.J. she attended Ladycliff College and earned a bachelor’s degree in English. She married Charles D. Potter at St. Joseph’s Church in Greenwich Village in 1958. They settled in Hawthorne where they raised five children and attended Holy Rosary parish. After their children had grown they moved to Peekskill and attended St. Columbanus parish in Cortlandt Manor.
She is survived by her husband Charles and children: Monica Couch, Regina Munz, Lisa Kepler, Charles III and Barbara Beirne; 13 grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and sisters Catherine Doza, Suzanne Power and Ruth Cleary.
A Funeral Mass was to be offered Sept. 4 at St. Columbanus Church followed by burial at Assumption Cemetery, Cortlandt Manor.
