A NUN who taught in Keighley for 14 years has died aged 94.

Sister Dominica taught at Holy Family Catholic School, which paid tribute to her contribution shortly after her death was announced earlier this month. (Sept)

A Holy Family spokesman Tweeted: "RIP Sister Dominica who helped to create our wonderful school."

Sister Dominica, born Margaret Mary Lee, was originally from Doncaster where she was born in 1923.

She was already a trained teacher when she entered the novitiate of the Sisters of the Cross and Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ in spring 1950. She received her religious name of Sister Dominica in September 1950, and professed her vows in September 1952.

That same month she went to teach at St Anthony’s school, Beeston, Leeds where she remained for eight years.

Then in September 1960, she came to Keighley to teach in St Anne’s secondary modern school, which was renamed four years later, in a new building, as Holy Family Catholic School.

A spokesman for the Sisters nursing home in Lytham, where Sister Dominica spent her last years, said: "At Holy Family she was particularly helpful towards the headmistress, sister Mary Campion McDonald both in school and in organising pupils’ overseas visits to Rome and elsewhere.

"After 14 years in Keighley, in August 1974 Sister Dominica went to Warrington, to be deputy headmistress and then headmistress of English Martyrs mixed secondary school.

"For part of this period she was also the local superior in the Warrington convent of the Sisters of the Cross and Passion.

"When she retired from teaching, Sister Dominica went in December 1984 to help open a new convent in Sutton, St Helens, where she worked closely with the Passionist Fathers in the parish of St Anne and Blessed Dominic Barberi CP.

"Two years later she moved to Liverpool, where she worked on the Marriage Tribunal of the Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool.

"After five years in Liverpool, in 1991, she went to Carmarthen in South Wales, to prepare for the opening of a new convent at Ystradgynlais.

"While in Wales Sister Dominica was an auditor for the Marriage Tribunal in the Catholic Diocese of Menevia, which necessitated long journeys for visits and interviews over a very wide area.

"She also visited the sick and housebound – both Catholics and others – in their homes and in hospitals, and did voluntary part-time teaching three days a week in a small, non-Catholic primary school with very limited resources.

"Sister Dominica returned to St Oswald’s parish, Warrington, in 2002 and after five years there she was asked to go to the Sisters nursing home in Lytham.

"She arrived there in December 2007 and remained very active, able to go out around the town and to fly to Dublin to visit relatives.

"In November 2015 however, her health began to fail, especially her eyesight.

"By August 2017 she was becoming much frailer. On September 4, aged 94, she had a very peaceful death, fortified by all the rites of the Catholic Church."