Submitted by: Dan Rich
Aug. 6, 1914 – Oct. 25, 1993
South Bend Tribune 10/26/1993
Sister M. Gertrudis Kimbrough CSC,
79, of Saint Mary’s Convent, died at 5:02 a.m. Monday in her
residence. She was born Aug. 6, 1914 in Carthlage, Ill. as
Gertrude Kimbrough. She entered the Congregation of the Sisters
of the Holy Cross on Jan. 26, 1934; was received as a novice Aug.
15, 1934; and professed her vows Aug. 15, 1936. She was assigned
to elementary education in music and was a former instructor at
St. Joseph Academy, Holy Cross School, St. Joseph Grade School,
all in South Bend; and other schools in Michigan City,
Crawfordsville, LaPorte, all in Indiana; and in Illinois,
Mississippi, Michigan and Texas. She served as sacristan at
Sacred Heart Basilica at Notre Dame from 1982 to 1985.