Mother M. Angeline Teresa was a woman of tremendous faith, hope and love. To those who knew her she was a mother, a sister, a friend, a teacher and model of religious life. It was her joy and warm-heartedness that drew most of the young women who joined her young community. When the nation's spirit was broken during the time of the Great Depression, she mustered her own spirit of courage, to walk the path God had prepared for her. Her love for the elderly was second only to the love of God that sustained her through the difficult times ahead. Her love for Mary, Mother of Jesus, St. Therese and St. Teresa of Avila was rewarded by the affiliation of her young Community into the great family of the Order of Carmel. She founded facilities of care for the elderly across the country and Ireland.
Mother Angeline Teresa died at the age of 91, an elderly woman, who spent her life caring for her beloved aged and infirm. Her daughters in Carmel remember her by her famous words: "If you have to fail, let it be on the side of kindness. Be kinder than kindness itself to the old people." Mother Angeline Teresa is laid to rest in the Congregation's cemetery at St. Teresa's Motherhouse in Germantown, NY. Her cause for beatification and canonization is being investigated in Rome.