Dan Russo By this Author Oct 04, 2019 Sr. Carol Hoverman dies; was first woman editor of Witness in DubuqueSr. Carol Hoverman, a Sister of St. Francis, who was at the forefront of Catholic communications for over three decades, died Oct. 3. She was 80 and had been in religious life for 63 years. Mar 12, 2016 'Pray It Forward' social media campaign focuses on sisters' many ministries