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She was 93.She was under hospice care for less than a week, said Sister Alice Marie Willman, of the Sisters of Notre Dame. The cause of death was not immediately known. -- Sister MichelEnlargeSister Michel last taught at St. John School in Delphos, Ohio, and the assignment spanned the closing decades of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st. She remained busy as a tutor for a few years until her departure in 2007.“She loved life. It wasn’t a drudgery,” said Sister Teresita Richards, who moved to St. John in 2001. “Every day was a new adventure.“She was known to spontaneously burst into song and dance,” Sister Teresita said. “She was a happy person and made life fun.”Sister Michel arrived at the school in 1984.“The people in Delphos loved her to bits. They could talk about her all day,” Sister Teresita said. “She pretty much taught second grade her whole life, so she knew that age group well.”Her students honed their reading and writing skills through Sister Michel’s instruction in phonics and cursive.“She was very, very kind to the children,” said Sister Robert Clare Groth, who taught third graders in the late 1980s at St. John. “The parents were very happy with having her.”Preparing students to make their First Communion was one of her favorite parts of the curriculum, and she was known for providing a mini-retreat for the girls in her classes, Sister Teresita said.She was a fan of St. John High School sports, and during her tenure, the Blue Jays football team was state champions four times and conference champions seven times, and the basketball team won six conference championships.Many of the athletes had once been in her class, and she made a point of attending home games and listening to away games on the radio, Sister Teresita said.Sister Michel had degrees in education and special education from the former Mary Manse College and from St. Louis University. In 1960, she began an extended assignment at Mary Immaculate School, started by the Sisters of Notre ... (Toledo Blade)