Sister Mary Daniel Baker

Jan 11, 1979 | Obituaries

On January 15, 1979, in the chapel of the Immaculate Conception, Heathfield, His Grace Archbishop Wilhelm offered the Funeral Mass for Sister Mary Daniel. This date marked Sister’s eighty-fourth birthday. Ellen Olive Baker, daughter of John Baker and Ellen O’Sullivan,...

Sister Mary Flavian Kearney

Sep 1, 1978 | Obituaries

On September 1, 1978, a venerable member of our Community went to her eternal reward, when at St. Mary’s of the Lake Hospital, Sister Mary Flavian died one month before her ninety-second birthday and in the sixty-seventh year of her religious life. Honora Mary Kearney...

Sister Lorraine Chapelle

May 6, 1978 | Obituaries

Theresa Veronica Chapelle was born in Belleville, Ontario, on September 5, 1927. Her mother, Julia Mullin, died just as Veronica was completing high school. Her pious and devoted father, John, was, during this trial, and all his life, a strong Christian model for his...

Sister Mary Alda McDonald

Feb 2, 1978 | Obituaries

On February 2, 1978, at Hotel Dieu Hospital, Kingston, Sister Mary Alda died in her sixty-second year as a member of our Community, the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul. Born on January 18, 1896, at Bath, Ontario, Mary Gertrude was the youngest of a family...

Sister Mary Majella Kerr

Oct 14, 1977 | Obituaries

In the summer of 1921 the novitiate at the House of Providence admitted twelve young ladies, eight from Kingston diocese, one from Toronto, one from Alexandria-Cornwall, and two from Edmonton, Alberta. And rather unusual in the story of a group of candidates, all...