Submitted by: Dan Rich

Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Sister Mary Finian Burke CSC

1878 – Sept. 16, 1960

 

South Bend Tribune 9/17/1960

Sister Mary Finian CSC, died at St. Mary’s Convent Friday night after a prolonged illness. She was born Elizabeth Burke in Limerick, Ireland in 1878 and entered the Sisters of the Holy Cross in 1896, receiving the habit in 1897. She made her profession of vows in 1902. During her community life she was stationed in hospitals in Idaho, Cairo, Ill. and at the student’s infirmary at the University of Notre Dame, and in Jacksonville, Ill., untill he retirement in 1946 to St. Mary’s Convent.

 

Services will be at 6 a.m. Monday in the Church of Our Lady of Loretto with burial in Our Lady of Peace Cemetery at St. Mary’s Friends may call in the convent parlor.