Born in Saranac, N.Y., she was the daughter of the late Albert and Anna (Dupel) Gonyea. She entered the novitiate of the Dominican Sisters of Fall River, Mass., in August 1947; made her first profession in August 1949, and final Profession in August 1953. 

Sister Theresa spent many years in the ministry of cooking for the Sisters. She was assigned locally to St. Rose Convent in Acushnet, and St. Catherine of Siena Convent in Fall River, both in Massachusetts. She also served at convents in New York and Connecticut. From 1980-1995, she was involved in the Christian Appalachia Project in Berea, Ky., where she volunteered, ministered to the elderly, and worked in the Child Day Care Center. She moved to the Newburgh Center of Hope in 1995.

Sister Theresa is survived by three sisters: Leila Nichols of Salem, Va., Lena Defayette of West Chazy, N.Y., Ursula Bacher of Bristol, Tenn.; and a brother, Wilfred Gonyea, of Plattsburgh N.Y. She is predeceased by three sisters, Leda Defayette, Rachael Healey, and Margaret LaRouche.

Her Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated February 6 in the main chapel of the Residential Care Center in Newburgh. Franciscan Father Thomas Garone was the celebrant. Burial was in the Dominican Sisters of Hope Cemetery there. The Brooks Funeral Home in Newburgh was in charge of arrangements.