Sr. Consuela Chase, SCC, of the Sisters of Christian Charity, died on Feb. 23, at Sacred Heart Convent, Wilmette, Ill. 

Virginia Chase was born in Detroit on Jan. 6, 1921. She entered the convent on June 20, 1934. On Aug. 21, 1937, Virginia became a novice and was given the name Sister M. Consuela. She made her first vows on Aug. 21, 1939. 

Sister M. Consuela’s ministry of teaching took her to St. Louis, Chicago, Minneapolis and Normandy, Mo. As she gained experience as a teacher she, like her students, moved up through the grades. After 1954 she was assigned to teach the upper elementary grades. 

In 1974 Sister M. Consuela returned to Wilmette. In 1978, after teaching in the program for three years, she became the director of the ESL (English as a Second Language) Program at Mallinckrodt College. In 1999 Sister M. Consuela moved to Josephinum Convent in Chicago, where she taught in the SCC Literacy Program. Two years later Sister began her ministry of office clerk at Josephinum Middle School. 

In 2013 Sister M. Consuela moved to Sacred Heart Convent in Wilmette, Ill., where she used her writing skills to thank benefactors for donations. In the years that followed Sister’s ministry evolved into one of “prayer and presence.”

The Mass of Christian Burial took place on Feb. 27. Sr. M. Consuela is buried in Maria Immaculata Cemetery.