Sister Ann David Wojtylka

September 7, 1932-December 25, 2022

You need endurance to do the will of God and receive the promise of life.

ASister of Charity for 67 years, S. Ann David Wojtylka grew up in Cokedale, Colorado, a small mining town, attending Cokedale Elementary School and graduating from Holy Trinity High School, Trinidad, Colorado, in 1950. In 1952, she received an Associate of Arts in Business from Trinidad State Junior College, putting the degree to work at a credit corporation and then as a secretary to the administrator of Las Animas County High School System. S. Ann David chose to enter the Sisters of Charity in September 1955. She was attracted to the Sisters she came to know at Holy Trinity High School and admired the life they had chosen.

S. Ann David’s ministries spanned 50 years in high school business education and hands-on ministry in a variety of business offices spread over the states of Colorado, Michigan, New Mexico, Ohio and Illinois between 1955 and 2005. Among the schools she taught at were Cathedral High School, Denver, Colorado (1957-’61); St. Mary High School, Albuquerque, New Mexico (1964-’66); St. Joseph Commercial High, Dayton, Ohio (1966-’69); and

Machebeuf High, Denver, Colorado (1975-’82)

In 1983 S. Ann David took a break from the teaching classroom and earned her Certificate of Theological Studies from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, California, a welcome refresher for all that was happening in the Church. She then served as a receptionist/secretary at Guardian Angels parish, Denver, Colorado, while she helped care for her aging parents. With her father’s death it became necessary for her to move to the Pueblo area and supplement her mother’s care while working as a secretary in the Women’s Resource Center at St. Mary-Corwin Hospital, Pueblo, Colorado. She also served as a member of the Geriatric Assessment Team. When moving to part-time ministry, S. Ann David managed the St. Mary-Corwin Hospital volunteers and worked in the Finance Services area.

For her retirement years, S. Ann David lived in Pueblo offering her services in the marriage tribunal office at the Diocese of Pueblo and volunteered for S.E.T., a community-based health and human services agency. S. Noreen Ellison remembers S. Ann David’s loving presence. “She volunteered with us at S.E.T. of Pueblo helping at our free clinics. S. Ann David had a generous spirit of service and a bright smile while doing it!”

In 2015 she moved East to be nearer to her Sisters of Charity Community and appreciated the opportunity to slow down and give more time to reflection and reconnecting with her Sisters.

Friend S. Victoria Marie Forde shared, “We taught together in Albuquerque and she was wellliked; I had the privilege of doing her oral history recently which revealed to me a loving daughter, a caregiver for her mother who needed special attention.”