Submitted by: Dan Rich

Sister M. Franceline Williams CSC

Apr. 18, 1909 – May 16, 1966

South Bend Tribune 5/16/1966

Sister M. Franceline CSC, 57, died early today in the Bishop Noll Convent in Hammond, Ind., where she had been stationed for the last year. She was born Anna Elizabeth Williams on April 15, 1909 in Montgomery, Ind., where she received her education in Montgomery schools, and after graduation from high school she entered the Sisters of the Holy Cross. She received the habit in 1927 and made her profession of vows in 1929. She was a graduate of St. Mary’s College and received her master of arts degree from the University of Notre Dame. She had taught in Ventura, Calif.; Morris, Cairo, Harvard and Woodstock in Illinois; Michigan City and Anderson in Indiana; and South Bend at Holy Cross and St. Joseph Grade School and St. Mary’s Academy.

The requiem high mass will be offered in Hammond Tuesday morning. The body will be brought to St. Mary’s Convent Tuesday where friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m.  Services will be at 6 a.m. Wednesday in the Church of Our Lady of Loretto at St. Mary’s College and burial will be in Our Lady of Peace Cemetery on the campus.