Sister M. Frances Jacko, OSF

March 23, 1925 - March 17, 2019

Sister M. Frances Jacko, formerly Sister Theophane, died on March 17, 2019, at Vincentian Home in Pittsburgh, Pa. She was 93 and in her 76th year of religious life.

Sister entered the community in 1941 from St. Mark Parish in McKees Rocks, Pa., and professed first vows in 1943 in Mount Assisi Convent Chapel, also in Pittsburgh. She received a bachelor’s degree in home economics from Mount Mercy College (now Carlow University) in Pittsburgh and a master’s degree in library science from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. 

In her early years, Sister was a missionary in the congregation’s first mission in Chile, South America, where she taught in the grade school. She spent years as an educator on the elementary level in parish schools and at the high school level at the former Mount Assisi Academy, where she taught home economics and did arts and crafts until the academy closed in 1978. Sister was well known among the alumnae for her ceramics and sewing classes, which she continued with them until her retirement.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Jacob and Mary (Ezarik) Jacko; brothers Edward, Ernest, Joseph, John, Valentine, George and James; and sisters Ann Pochatko, Agnes Jacko, Margaret Nekos, Matilda Bury, Mary Kascak and Sister Julia. She is survived by her sister, Sister Cecilia; her religious community; and many nieces, nephews and extended family members.

Sister Frances is buried alongside Sister Julia Jacko in St. Francis Cemetery at Mt. Assisi Place in Pittsburgh, Pa.