This week 97-year old Compassion Sister Felix received a medal for 7 decades of work as a sister.
The medal was given to Sister Felix primarily for the work she did in the Wellington soup kitchen which was then in Buckle St.
For more than 12 years she cooked breakfast and dinner every day, visiting sick, elderly, and lonely people in the community in between meals.
She was attacked by a drug addict at age 84, was back at work the next day to cook for the masses, and knows how to make tripe edible.
At Upper Hutt’s Home of Compassion yesterday, Sister Felix was mortified that one-time fellow soup kitchen worker Eddie Mollier had nominated her for a New Zealand Local Hero medal.
“I’d like to wring his neck,” she said with a chuckle, eyes twinkling. “He thought the sun and the stars shone out of me – I was his pin-up girl,” said Sister Felix.
Source
- Stuff.co.nz
- Image: Hutt News
