Local order houses nun after Hurricane Katrina.(News)

0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September, 2005 | by Daday, Eileen O.

Byline: Eileen O. Daday Daily Herald Correspondent Sister Leonilla Marque, 82, has traveled across the country during her years as a Catholic schoolteacher, but none of her stories lived up to her most recent adventure, of being evacuated from the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast. Now safely settled with her religious community in Arlington Heights, she still chuckles about how easily a pair of men picked her up and carried her into a huge Air Force transport helicopter to take her from the Superdome to San Antonio.

"They picked me as if it was nothing," Marque said. "I was floored." It was just one of a series of events that happened to her along the way from New Orleans to the Northwest suburbs. Marque is a member of the Sisters of the Living Word,...