‘Thank God we were here’: Sister Grace, in hospice, reflects on a life of giving

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — When Sister Grace Miller showed up at a public meeting, often, you could almost feel the eyes roll.

Everyone knew why she was there and what she would say.

And she would never, ever back down.“Because I knew I was right,” Grace, 89, said with a laugh as he lay in her bed inside a hospice home.Even in her final days she feels that way, which is why she wants to say what she has to say, one last time.“Everybody deserves a home and homeless person deserves a home,” Sister Grace said.For Sister Grace, decades ago, that belief became mission and in 1985, with $20,000 from the Sisters of Mercy, she opened what would become one of the most well-known homeless shelters in Rochester, New York…

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