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Ita Ford was born on 23 April, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York, is an American Catholic Maryknoll Sister. Discover Ita Ford's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 40 years old?

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Occupation Maryknoll Missionary Sister
Age 40 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 23 April, 1940
Birthday 23 April
Birthplace Brooklyn, New York
Date of death 2 December, 1980
Died Place El Salvador
Nationality United States

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Parents William P. Ford, Sr., & Mildred Teresa O'Beirne
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1892

William Patrick Ford was related to Austin B. Ford, whose son, Francis Xavier Ford (1892–1952), was the first seminarian to apply to the newly established Maryknoll Fathers in 1911 and, after being ordained as a missionary in 1917, went to China, where he became a bishop and a martyr.

1936

She had an older brother, William P. Ford (1936–2008) and a younger sister, Irene.

The family lived in Brooklyn.

1940

Ita Ford, M.M. (April 23, 1940 – December 2, 1980) was an American Catholic Maryknoll Sister who served as a missionary in Bolivia, Chile and El Salvador.

She worked with the poor and war refugees.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, on April 23, 1940, Ford was the daughter of William Patrick Ford, an insurance man who took early retirement due to tuberculosis, and Mildred Teresa O'Beirne Ford, a public-school teacher.

1952

He died in a Communist prison camp there in 1952, when his young "cousin" Ita was twelve.

Although her mother taught in the public school system, Ita Ford was educated in parochial schools, beginning at age five in the Visitation Academy in Bay Ridge, run by the Visitation Sisters, a semi-cloistered order.

She attended Fontbonne Hall Academy, a high school operated by the Sisters of St. Joseph, where she worked on the school newspaper.

1957

Finally, from 1957 to 1961, she attended Marymount Manhattan College, founded by the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary.

1961

(Marymount Manhattan split from its mother school, Marymount College, in 1961).

Following in her relative the Bishop's footsteps, Ford had confided in a high school friend at the age of fifteen that she not only wanted to be a nun, she specifically felt called to be a Maryknoll missionary sister.

1966

Even before her college graduation in 1966, Ford had a vocational counselor advising her about her fitness for Maryknoll.

She entered the Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic at the age of twenty-one.

Three years later, due to ill health, she had to leave the formation program.

1971

After working seven years as an editor at a publishing company, Ford reapplied and was again accepted by the Maryknoll Sisters in 1971.

1973

After serving briefly in Bolivia in 1972, she moved to Chile a short time before the military coup there on September 11, 1973.

Ford lived in a poor shantytown with Sister Carla Piette, M.M., in Santiago, where they ministered to the needs of the people, especially those who lived in poverty.

1978

After spending a required "reflection year" in the United States, 1978–1979, before taking permanent religious vows in March 1980, Ford moved with Piette from Chile to El Salvador, arriving the day of Óscar Romero's funeral.

In June of that year, they began working with the Emergency Refugee Committee in Chalatenango.

In this mission, Ford worked with the poor and war victims, providing food, shelter, transportation and burial.

1980

On December 2, 1980, she was beaten, raped, and murdered along with three fellow missionaries — Dorothy Kazel, Maura Clarke and Jean Donovan — by members of the military of El Salvador.

After the death of Sister Carla in a flash flood on August 23, 1980—a flood which nearly cost Ford her own life, saved only by Piette's help in pushing her from the overwhelmed vehicle—Ford was joined on the mission by Maura Clarke, a Maryknoll sister who was already in El Salvador in contemplation of a mission assignment.

Altogether, Piette and Ford had worked together in Chile and El Salvador for seven years, until their deaths barely three months apart on December 2, 1980.