Article: Sister Francis Borgia, 87; aided teen-age girls as life's ministry

Sister Margaret Francis Borgia, a nun dedicated to helping emotionally disturbed teen-age girls, died Wednesday at Cranberry Pointe Health Care Center in Harwich. She was 87.

Born in Roxbury as Margaret E. Begley, Sister Francis grew up in Roslindale. She attended Mission Church Grammar School (Our Lady of Perpetual Help) and graduated from Girls High School in Boston with a major in business.

She worked for New England Telephone Co. until she entered the Good Shepherd Novitiate in Peekskill, N.Y. in 1944.

After professing her vows in 1946, Sister Francis was sent to Our Lady of the Way Convent in Jamaica Plain. She served for 20 years as a child-care worker at the Girls' Guidance Center, ...

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