From the Miami Herald:

She was born in Cuba in 1910, a year when Halley’s Comet was visable on Earth, King George V took the throne in England and a killer hurricane battered Cuba and Florida. As a young woman, she felt a religious calling and entered the order. She worked at a popular all-girls Catholic school, Our Lady of Lourdes School in La Vibora.
But in May 1961, some 40-plus nuns from the school — including Sister Ana Maria — were ordered by Castro’s government into a cargo ship bound for West Palm Beach. At the same time in Miami, Monsignor Bryan O. Walsh, father of Operation Pedro Pan, was looking for Spanish-speaking nuns to care for the Pedro Pan children.
Sister Ana Maria was assigned to the Kendall camp, near Southwest 110th Avenue and 84th Street. There, she and other nuns became surrogate mothers for the homesick Cuban children.
Carmen Romanach — a former student at Our Lady of Lourdes School and Pedro Pan child — will attend Saturday’s Mass. “Sister Ana Maria and all the nuns at the Kendall camp became surrogate parents to us kids and we’ll always be grateful to them,’’ Romanach said.
Fifty years later, the nun says the Pedro Pan kids still have a place in her heart.
“I still remember their sad, little faces,’’ she said. “I hope I brought them some comfort.’’

More here.