Sr. Nancy Bartolo, IHM, died Feb. 3, in the IHM Health Care Center. She was 83.Sr. Bartolo was born June 26, 1931, in Brooklyn, N.Y., to John and Emma (Attard) Farrugia. Her father died one month after her birth and she was raised by Charles and Emma Bartolo, along with her brothers and sisters. She attended schools in Brooklyn before moving to Michigan and attending Holy Redeemer and Dillon, Detroit. After graduating from Sacred Heart High School, Dearborn, she entered the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary of Monroe in 1949, receiving the religious name of Sr. Bartholomew.
Sr. Bartolo earned degrees from Marygrove College and Wayne State University, Detroit. She taught elementary school at Holy Name, Birmingham; St. Catherine, Annunciation and Christ the King, Detroit; and Sacred Heart, Roseville; before moving to high school teaching at Bishop Gallagher, Harper Woods; Marian, Bloomfield Hills; and Shrine Catholic, Royal Oak. In 1990, Sr. Bartolo began teaching at De La Salle Collegiate, Warren, where she ministered for 20 years.
Sr. Bartolo is preceded in death by her parents. She is survived by sisters, Yvonne of Schaumberg, Ill., and Rita of Washington D.C., and brothers, Harry of Livonia; Robert of Columbia, Mo.; and Michael of Clearwater, Fla.
Mass of Christian Burial was Feb. 10 at the IHM Motherhouse. Burial will be in St. Mary Cemetery on the Motherhouse campus.
