Sister Mary Charles Sterne, O.P., a member of the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia Congregation in Nashville for 62 years, died on November 9, 2026.  She was 80 years old.  Born in Columbus, Ohio, Sister Mary Charles was the daughter of the late Warren and Mary Hall Sterne.  She attended Sacred Heart High School in Memphis. She entered the Dominican Sisters in 1964, making profession of vows in 1966. Sister Mary Charles’s first teaching assignment in 1967 was at St. Rose Academy in Birmingham, and she returned many times in the intervening decades, most recently in the 2018-2019 academic year.  She served as a teacher or principal for nearly sixty years in elementary and secondary schools across Tennessee and Alabama. From August of 2019 to May of 2026 Sister Mary Charles taught the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd at Overbrook Catholic School. It was her delight to share the Word of God with her students and to observe them deepen their relationship with Him who was the joy of her life. She is preceded in death by her sister, Cheryl Mulcahy; and survived by her sister Mary (Thomas) Brandenburg, brother Victor Sterne, sister-in-law Joanne (Phil) Sterne, and many loving nieces and nephews. The wake will be held at St. Cecilia Motherhouse on November 11 from 3:30-7:00 and on November 12 from 1:30-3:00, the funeral will follow at 3:30.