Returning to work is cause for celebration at St. Ann Center for Intergenerational Care in Milwaukee.

Staff members will form a car “caravan” that will circle St. Ann Center’s Stein Campus, 2801 E. Morgan Ave. With handmade signs, bright balloons and a chorus of honking horns, the center’s employees will thank Lonergan for her leadership during this precarious time of COVID-19.

In mid-March, as a preventive measure, St. Ann Center closed its Stein Campus as well as its Bucyrus Campus on Milwaukee’s north side, a neighborhood that was hard hit soon after by the novel coronavirus.

Edna sees St. Ann Center as her family — she didn’t hesitate to put people before profits.”

Edna—St. Ann Center is her life’s work,” Rozanski said.