Posted May 9, 2019

Sister Eileen Clare Hubbert, S.S.J. (formerly Sister Vincent Gerard), died April 22 at Chestnut Hill Hospital, Philadelphia. She was 76 and in the 59th year of her religious life.

The daughter of the late Gerard and Margaret Hubbert, she attended St. Timothy Grade School and St. Hubert High School in Philadelphia.

In September 1960 she entered the Sisters of St. Joseph, Chestnut Hill, and professed her final vows in 1968.

Sister Eileen ministered in the Archdioceses Philadelphia and Newark and the dioceses of Allentown, Metuchen and Trenton.

The funeral Mass was celebrated April 26.

She is survived by her sister Kathy Metzger, brother Father Joseph Hubbert, C.M. and nieces Pamela O’Brien (John), Kathleen Williams (Joseph) and Maria Eileen Read (Christopher). She is also survived by grandnieces and nephews and members of her congregation, the Sisters of St. Joseph.

Donations may be made in Sister Eileen’s name to St. Joseph Villa, 110 Wissahickon Ave., Flourtown, PA 19031