There will be a memorial mass for Sister Betty Brucker on Friday July 31st at 10:00 am.  As the head of St. Mary's Health Center in Richmond Heights, Sister Betty Brucker was known for helping the poor.  A Franciscan Sister O Mary, she often wrote off bills from those unable to pay, friends said.  She built housing on the hospital campus for people with AIDS who were too ill to live at home.  It was the 1980's and the AIDS epidemic ws relatively new and often feared.  Sister Brucker's decision was controversial, but she stood by it.  She worked with the St. Louis Archdiocese, a local rabbi and other Christian congregations to start the Doorways Interfaith AIDS residence program.  She had been executive director and president of St. Mary's for 16 years, from 1975-91, when she retired..  Archbishop John May of St. Louis then named her director of the Cathloic Community Services for Cathloic Charities, where she served until 2003.  Sister Brucker died of an inoperable brain aneurysm on Tuesday (June 30, 2015) at the Sarah Community in Bridgeton.  She was 90 and had been a Franciscan Sister of mary for more than 72 years.  Betty Ann Brucker was born in St. Charles, the Eldest of eight children.  She was a graduate from St. Peter High School.  She studied at St. Louis University and earned degrees in nursing education and hospital administration.  She donated her body to the School of Medicine at St. Louis University.  Survivors include a brother, Lester Brucker of St. Charles