Ita Ford
Female, Deceased Person
1940 – 1980
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Who was Ita Ford?
Sister Ita Ford, M.M. was a Roman Catholic Maryknoll Sister who served as a missionary in Bolivia, Chile and El Salvador. She worked with the poor and war refugees. On December 2, 1980, she was tortured, raped, and murdered, along with fellow missionaries Sister Maura Clarke, M.M., laywoman Jean Donovan, and Sister Dorothy Kazel, O.S.U. They were killed in El Salvador by members of a military death squad of the right-wing Salvadoran military-led government.
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- Born
- Apr 23, 1940
Brooklyn - Siblings
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Fontbonne Hall Academy
- Marymount Manhattan College
- Lived in
- Brooklyn
- Died
- Dec 2, 1980
El Salvador
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on July 23, 2013
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