QUEEN OF HEAVEN MONASTERY Sister Ambrose celebrates golden jubilee at service

A special service and dinner marked the occasion.
WARREN -- Byzantine Benedictine Sister Ambrose Chuchvara, of Queen of Heaven Monastery, recently celebrated her golden jubilee of religious profession with a Divine Liturgy at the monastery.
Officiating at the service in August were Metropolitan Archbishop Basil Schott, the Very Rev. Leo Schlosser, hegumen of Holy Trinity Monastery in Butler, Pa.; the Rev. Robert Karl, pastor of Sts. Peter & amp; Paul Church in Warren; and Monsignor George Appleyard, pastor of Holy Trinity Church, Carnegie, Pa.
Her background
Sister Ambrose was born in De Lancey-Adrian, Pa., the second of seven children. She attended school in Punxsutawney, Pa., until her family moved to Flint, Mich., where she worked for a short time at General Motors Corp.
She entered Sacred Heart Monastery, Lisle, Ill., in January 1954 and made her first vows July 27, 1955. Sister Ambrose received a bachelor's degree in education at Youngstown State University and a master's degree in business administration and education at Cleveland State University.
She taught in Lisle and Joliet, Ill., where she was principal of St. Mary's Assumption Byzantine Catholic School. After coming with the Byzantine Benedictine Sisters to Warren in 1965, she taught at Sts. Peter & amp; Paul Byzantine Catholic Elementary School and High School in Warren and the Byzantine Catholic High School in Parma. Sister Ambrose also taught religious education classes at the Warren parish and St. Michael's Byzantine Catholic Church, Hermitage, Pa.
Sister Ambrose has ministered at a local nursing home in its administrative offices. She also worked in the financial offices at Truck World and at the Diocese of Youngstown, where she spent the past 10 years before her retirement in 2002.
Sister Ambrose served as treasurer of the Byzantine community for 12 years and was a member of the rite's Community Council and Long Range Planning Committee.