Sister Grace Miller, founder of the House of Mercy homeless shelter, has died following several months in hospice care. She was 90.
Miller founded the House of Mercy in 1985. At the time, it was a fledgling operation in a one-bedroom house on Central Park funded by $20,000 from the Sisters of Mercy, the progressive Catholic congregation Miller belonged to.
“I had never done any fundraising in my life, but I didn’t tell them that,” she said during a June interview with WXXI from her hospice bed. “I just took the money they gave me and ran before they had a chance to change their minds.”…