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Sister Joan Anne Campbell, M.M., who was an educator in Africa and South America and served her community in development and other areas in New York, died Dec.12 at Maryknoll Sisters Home Care III, Ossining. She was 86.
She was a teacher and headmistress at several schools in Tanzania, 1957-1969. After three years in the United States promoting her order’s mission, she returned to Tanzania where she taught religious education at Arusha Seminary, 1972-1977. After a year teaching at Fort Wright College, Spokane, Wash., she served in Bolivia, 1977-1981. She again went to Tanzania to join a religious education team offering a renewal program for teachers, 1981-1992.
Sister Joan returned to the Maryknoll motherhouse, serving in the mission projects funding office, 1992-1995, and the mission archives office, 1996.
She then became director of the Maryknoll Sisters World Section House in Nairobi, Kenya, 1997-2000.
She went on to fill several posts at the Maryknoll motherhouse, including work in the direct mail special donors office, 2001-2005. She volunteered at the congregation’s Rogers Library, 2006-2012.
Born in Atlantic City, N.J., she entered the Maryknoll Sisters in 1947 and professed final vows in 1953. Formerly known as Sister Jeanne d’Arc, she earned a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from Fordham University.
A Funeral Mass was offered Dec. 18 in the Annunciation Chapel at the Maryknoll Sister Center, Ossining. She donated her body to science.
