NORTH ATTLEBORO, Mass. — Sister Yvonne Phoenix, SUSC, 95, also known as Sister Marie Gemma, a resident of Madonna Manor here, died June 21, 2009. Born in Pawtucket, R.I., the daughter of the late Honorius and Alphonsine (Sicard) Phoenix, she attended St. John the Baptist Academy and graduated from Pawtucket Senior High School. She entered the Holy Union Sisters in Fall River in 1933 and pronounced her vows on July 26, 1934. She attended Catholic Teachers’ College in Providence, Manhattanville College in New York, and graduated from Sacred Heart School of Education in Fall River. Her teaching career spanned nearly 50 years in schools in Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island. Locally, she taught at and was principal at Sacred Heart School in North Attleboro, and was the superior of nuns there. She left formal teaching in 1978 to provide service at St. Michaels Parish in Swansea. After assisting the elderly sisters at St. Mary’s Villa in Lowell she joined the retirement community at St. Mary’s Convent in North Attleboro in 1981 where she resided until 1998. During this time, she served for seven years as a pastoral minister at Madonna Manor in North Attleboro, visiting the patients, played the organ and sang at Masses, and was sacristan. Sister Yvonne joined other Holy Union Sisters at Madonna Manor in 1998 and remained there until her death. In 2008, she observed the 75th anniversary of her entrance into Holy Union. In addition to her Holy Union Sisters, she leaves a niece, Camille Broussard of Pawtucket, R.I. She was the sister of the late Jeannette Phoenix Baris and Theresa Phoenix Morrisseau. Her Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated June 24 in Sacred Heart Church, North Attleboro. Burial was in St. Mary Cemetery, North Attleboro.