Oct 31, 1976 | Obituaries
Edith Barry was born and brought up on a farm home in the parish of Morrisburg, one of a family of nine, six girls and three boys. Three of the girls embraced religious life as Sisters of Providence – Edith (Sister Mary Leonard), Elizabeth (Sister Mary Borgia) and...
Apr 26, 1976 | Obituaries
Katherine Ward belonged to an Irish-Canadian family of Montreal. Her parents, Patrick Ward and Elizabeth McGuigan were both born in Ireland, met and married in Montreal and their family of four grew up in that city. Katherine was born on January 24, 1894 and baptized...
Mar 13, 1976 | Obituaries
On March 13th, 1976, the Community lost one of its eldest members when Sister Mary Winnifred died in the infirmary of the Motherhouse at the age of 94 years and 10 months. Seventy years previously Norah Rourke at the age of twenty-four left her home in Ballina, County...
Jan 28, 1976 | Obituaries
Sister Mary Hildegarde, eldest of ten children of Nicholas Rushman and Mary Ellen Servage, was born on December 5, 1897 at Crysler, Ontario in Alexandria diocese. She was educated by the Holy Cross Sisters and as a very young stenographer-bookkeeper in a law firm in...
Nov 20, 1975 | Obituaries
Mary Veronica McGuiggan was born in Perth on January 21, 1895, and baptized six days later at St. John’s Church by Reverend Father Duffus. Her parents, Patrick McGuiggan and Catherine Quinn, belonged to pioneer families of North Burgess Township, Lanark County, a...
