HONOURED FOR HER LIFE OF SERVICE: Gisborne missionary and nun, Sister Cynthia Kearney, with Dame Susan Glazebrook at the ceremony at Government House yesterday. Picture by Doug Mountain
Gisborne missionary and nun, Sister Cynthia Kearney, received the Queen's Service Medal from Dame Susan Glazebrook at a ceremony at Government House yesterday.
She was recognised for her services to missionary work and the community. Sister Cynthia trained as a teacher, and became a sister of Our Lady of the
Missions in 1964. Much of her working life was spent in the Pacific — she was a founding teacher of the first secondary school on the island of Savaii in Western Samoa. She is involved in interdenominational church work and facilitates prayer services at Te Wiremu rest home.
She runs prayer groups and visits the sick and housebound. 'Life is a gift so I don't want to waste it,' she told The Gisborne Herald.
