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Marie Therese Liddy of Farmingdale, New Jersey passed away on Sunday, February 11, the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, after saying the Hail Mary and receiving Holy Communion at the age of 92 years old. Born in Newark, New Jersey, Terry was raised in West Orange and attended Our Lady of the Valley in Orange where she excelled academically, in music and in many school plays.
‘Aunt Terry’ to many nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews, her door was always open to family and friends, and her home the gathering place for countless holidays and celebrations, which often began with a Mass celebrated in the living room by her brother Msgr. Richard M. Liddy. Most especially, she loved gathering her family for the annual Holy Family Mass and celebration. A gifted singer who auditioned at the Metropolitan Opera at the age of fifteen, the tradition was always highlighted by Terry’s beautiful singing of “O Holy Night.”
A master coach and human resources executive, Terry spent over three decades in executive coaching for business, industry, and education particularly in individual development and organizational behavior and planning. As a founder of Mainstream Access, Philadelphia and later Corporate SVP of Training and Human Development for MAI International Group, she led initiatives in large scale corporate restructuring and the development of transition and career centers for many of the nation’s major corporations including Exxon, Bethlehem Steel, GM, Chrysler, GE, GTE, and Hewlett-Packard. Generous of spirit, eternally optimistic and a mentor to many, most important to her was helping men and women from all walks of life to see how their God-given gifts, talents and passions could make a difference in the world.
Terry held master’s degrees in Sacred Theology and English from St. Bonaventure University, bachelor’s degrees in English and Music from Chestnut Hill College and numerous certifications from organizations and universities.
As a Sister of St. Joseph of Chestnut Hill until the age of 45, she was a counselor, campus minister and lecturer at La Salle University, Temple University and St. Bonaventure University, a teacher at John Carroll and York Catholic High Schools and elementary schools in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.
Terry was involved with many commissions, committees and task forces including those pertaining to interreligious dialogue, Judaeo-Christian studies, and the International Eucharistic Congress in Philadelphia in 1976 throughout which she was assigned to accompany Dorothy Day and prayed with Dorothy, Saint Teresa of Calcutta, and Dom Helder Camara. Terry loved her Catholic faith, was involved in Cursillo, and taught the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) even into her late eighties.
A lifelong learner, Terry was a voracious reader, loved mysteries, movies and completed the Sunday New York Times crossword in record time every Saturday. Always accessible, she loved people, her Irish family lore and lived life to the full in the service of God and others.
She served as interim director of the Micah Institute, Center for Catholic Studies, Seton Hall University, and a member of the Board of the Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies at Seton Hall University. As the daughter of a legendary football coach and in a family of athletes, Terry was an avid sports fan particularly of the Seton Hall Pirate basketball team.
Terry was predeceased by her parents Joseph A. Liddy, Sr., and Veronica Liddy (nee Beston) and her brother Joseph A. Liddy, Jr., and his wife Colette Liddy (nee Groome). She is survived by her beloved brother Msgr. Richard M. Liddy, nieces and nephews, Colette Liddy; Joseph Liddy, III (Maureen), Gerianne Leskauskas (Frank), John Liddy (Meredith), Gregory Liddy (Kayla), Marie Liddy, Dolores Karg (Lawrence), and Michael Liddy (Colleen), great nieces and nephews Charlene McGuckin (Stephen) and their children Frank, Adelaide and Lilyana; Theresa Leskauskas, Marie Leskauskas, Julianne Leskauskas, Joseph Liddy, IV, Matthew Liddy, Michael Christopher Liddy, David Romero, Ryan Karg, Sean Karg, Colette Karg, Katherine Karg, James Karg, John Paul Karg, Michael Russell Liddy, Fiona Liddy and Paul Liddy, special extended family member Colleen Reeves, and numerous cousins and friends whom she loved dearly.
Donations in her memory may be made to the Center for Catholic Studies, Seton Hall University at http://www.shu.edu/giving
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