(1 Jan. 1880-25 Dec. 1972), member of a religious community. Born at North Lancaster, GC. Parents: Pascal Rozon (d. 1920s) and his wife Ozéline Bourbonnais (d. 8 May 1943, at North Lancaster, aged 93 or 94). At the age of 14, Rose-Anna Rozon became a student at the convent of the Sisters of Ste-Anne, St-Polycarpe, Que. She became a postulant with the Grey Nuns (les Soeurs Grises) in 1897, and took her vows as a Grey Nun in 1900. Thereafter, she served for 20 years at St. Anthony’s Orphanage, Toledo, Ohio. Then beginning in 1921, at the age of 41, she trained as a nurse at St. Vincent Hospital, Toledo. On completing her course, she remained at St. Vincent Hospital serving as a nurse till 1930, when she came to Montreal, where at St. Mary’s Hospital she served for 10 years as director of nursing at both the hospital and its school of nursing, and afterwards was superior for three years. She returned to the United States about late 1943, then after two years in Toledo, she was placed in charge of developing the school of nursing at the Holy Ghost Hospital in Cambridge, Mass. A publication of about this time on the 50th anniversary of this hospital for incurables records that it had in 1944 a staff of 24 Grey Nuns and 40 attendant nurses. She left Cambridge in 1953, aged 73, and thereafter spent four years at Nashua, New Hampshire, before returning to the Grey Nuns’ Mother House in Montreal. She died in Montreal.

     Throughout her career, this dedicated nurse worked through further training and study to update her nursing training and knowledge. While at St. Vincent Hospital, she took the preliminary training for the practice of pharmacy. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Université de Montréal in 1932, and took courses at Loyola College in 1934. In 1935, she was awarded one of the silver jubilee medals issued on the 25th anniversary of George V’s accession. In 1950, the year in which she celebrated her golden jubilee, she was given an honorary doctorate by Boston College. While at St. Mary’s Hospital, she wrote a book of techniques for use in her hospital, and had it copyrighted in 1938. No copy of the book has been located. It may have remained a typescript for in-house use instead of being formally published. A woman of force and character, a skilful and thoughtful manager, she contributed over many decades to the care of the ill both as a hard-working nurse herself, and as a trainer of nurses. She was especially involved in the problems of the care of the chronically ill. She was considered an aunt of Fr Fernand Brazeau, the foster son of her sister. When he was a student at Harvard in the 1940s, he lived in accomodations at her hospital.

Jeanne Forest, s.g. m., “Soeur Rose-Anna Rozon 1880-1972,” a valuable 12-page French-language biography, paginated 71-1 to 71-12 (copy kindly made available, 1998, to present author by Sister G. Chevrier, archivist, Les Soeurs Grises de Montréal) * 1882-1982: St. Margaret of Scotland Parish Paroisse Ste-Marguerite d’Ecosse: Glen Nevis, Ontario (1982?), unpaginated: portrait, biog. note * obituary of her mother, Standard Freeholder 17 May 1943 * portrait photograph, dated 1940, copy kindly supplied by Boston College * Solemn Triduum of Thanksgiving Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Holy Ghost Hospital Cambridge Massachussets (1944), pp. 21: photographs, history (photocopy kindly supplied by Archdiocese of Boston)