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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Sister Margo Cain, who worked for the needy, has died at 73.
Cain died of cancer at her home in Park City.
She was executive director of Catholic Community Services, the Roman Catholic Church's social services agency, in Utah from 1995 to 2001.
Later she worked with Holy Cross ministries in Salt Lake City and most recently coordinated programs for the needy at St. Mary's of the Assumption Church in Park City.
"She had a deep love for people who were marginalized and vulnerable. It defined her whole life," said the Rev. Terence Moore of St. John the Baptist Church in Draper. "She really was the voice for the voiceless."
Moore described Cain as energetic and "spunky" and said she loved to ski and travel. She also was an avid reader.
"She loved the mountains and considered Utah her adopted state," said Moore, head of CCS just before Cain's appointment.
Cain was born Jan. 5, 1933, in Spokane, Wash. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Seattle and worked as a registered medical librarian. At 23, she entered the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross.
She later attended St. Louis University in Missouri, earning a master's degree in hospital administration and worked the next two decades as a hospital administrator and trainer in South Bend and Anderson, Ind.
In 1978, she was assigned to Holy Cross Hospital, now Salt Lake Regional Medical Center. During the next nine years, she held several positions at the Salt Lake City hospital, including president.
Cain left Utah for hospital positions in Cincinnati and Anchorage, Alaska, returning in 1995 to take the CCS post.
Cain is survived by a brother, two nieces and a nephew. Services are Wednesday in South Bend. A memorial mass will be Sunday at 11:30 a.m. at St. Mary's of the Assumption Church in Park City.
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