Sister Caroline Deutscher is being fondly remembered as a 'wonderful teacher' who dedicated her life to service.
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Her funeral was held at the Loreto College chapel on Monday last week.
Sister Caroline died aged 101-years-old.
She was well known in the Ballarat community for her service in teaching and significant contributions to parish life in Ballarat.
Recent years marked major milestones for Sister Caroline, with acknowledgement of her 80 years of service in 2018 and celebrations for her 100th birthday in 2019.
Sister Caroline was born in Portland in 1919 and grew up in the small western Victorian town of Merino.
She joined religious life in 1938 at age 19 after completing her early years of secondary school by correspondence, then later as a boarder in Portland.
In 1941, Sister Caroline professed her vows as a member of the Order of Loreto in Ballarat.
Sister Caroline dedicated her life to service as a teacher, first in primary, then moving on to tertiary education.
She taught at many schools in Victoria, Adelaide and Perth, and retired at age 89 from a position teaching education at Australian Catholic University in Ballarat.
Teaching had run in Sister Caroline's family. Her mother was a teacher and her mother's grandfather was sent to Australia from England by the British government to set up schools in Victoria.
Sister Caroline's journey in teaching began in South Melbourne, before she moved to teach in Ballarat, Adelaide, Perth, Blackburn and back to Ballarat where she spent most of her later years.
Speaking to The Courier in 2018, Sister Caroline said she remembered teaching large classes with her record a class of 125 students in Redan after the war.
"I loved to see a child growing," she told The Courier in 2018.
"These little preps would come to school at the beginning of the year and they might be able to tell you their name, but they couldn't do a thing in the way of writing. By the end of the year they were writing stories.
"To see how every day they changed and the way they would go home and tell their mothers stories of what they did at school was what I loved."
Sister Caroline has been remembered as a 'wonderful teacher' and a 'beautiful lady who enriched the lives of many with her sense of humour and intelligence'.