She was the fifth child and only daughter of Marie H. "Dollie" Brieugne and Marcel Valentin Haulard, So "beloved" by parents, four brothers and two grandmothers, she was named "Aimee." From Belgian and French parents, French was her first language.

Baptized by Fr. Joseph R. Gonzales OP of Holy Rosary Province, at St. Anthony of Padua, she was consciously Dominican throughout her life. Growing up in the shadow of the church with a family actively involved, she attended St. Anthony from "primer grade" up to Dominican High School, then College.

From the start she excelled in her studies, and led her class. Soon after graduating with highest honors from St. Mary's Dominican College, B.S. in Mathematics, 1939, she wrote to Mother M. Catherine

She did serve, teaching at Dominican High School and College at the uptown campus. At the same time she served as infirmarian, keeping vigil with older sisters whose lives were drawing to a close: Among her patients were her beloved Sr. Mary Rose O'Sullivan, who had taught her four brothers. Next she taught in the grades at St. Matthias, New Orleans, and St. Agnes, Baton Rouge, each for one year.

In 1946 this irrepressible young woman of courage was tapped for a bold new venture, a residential high school in Rosaryville for girls who wanted to become Dominican Sisters. City girls encountered rural life, meeting cows and calves, lambs and piglets on a strawberry farm, while juggling high school work parallel to St. Mary's Dominican, and learning at their level something about community and religious life. Sr. Mary Aimee rose to the challenge. Her former students are loyal; many give witness to her strengths. One, Sr. Mary Jordan, preached an eloquent homily at the funeral at St. Anthony's.

After seven years in Rosaryville, having completed her work for an M.A. in French at the University of Illinois in 1950, she was named prioress of the motherhouse, returning to teach at Dominican College; later she was appointed Dean of Women. In 1968 after being elected to the General Council, she was asked to fill a vacancy as principal of St. Matthias School in New Orleans. Always a "quick study," she acquired the needed expertise before her lack of experience was apparent. After six years she was appointed principal of St. Rosalie's in Harvey. By 1974 she had completed her M.Ed. in Administration from Tulane. After serving for eight years on the West Bank, she returned to her native St. Anthony's, teaching upper elementary, or Math-- whatever was needed-- until she went to part-time teaching in 1982 Soon Sister began to extend herself in pastoral ministry to the people of God at St. Anthony's. Father Clement Collins, pastor, seized upon the opportunity to formalize her status as a member of the parish staff. Gradually as her physical strength for home visiting declined, she continued as sacristan for the large, busy parish, counseling parishioners in crisis who came to her between services.