Ford, Ita

Ford, Ita

Ford, Ita

Ita Ford, MM was an American Catholic Sister who served as a missionary in Bolivia, Chile and El Salvador. She worked with the Emergency Refugee Committee helping the poor and war victims, providing food, shelter, transportation and burial.

On December 2, 1980, she was beaten, raped, and murdered along with three fellow missionaries — Dorothy Kazel, Maura Clarke and Jean Donovan — by members of the military of El Salvador.

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