May 14, 1972 | Obituaries
Anna Marie Laffan, daughter of Thomas Laffan and Mary Golden was born in the parish of Greensboro, Kingston diocese, on July 11, 1895. On August 15, 1914, at the age of nineteen she entered the Novitiate of the Sisters of Providence, but homesickness for her parents...
Apr 17, 1972 | Obituaries
Sister Mary Cecile, the former Kathleen Cecilia Koster, was born in Toronto on November 12, 1893, daughter of Matthew Koster and Catherine McDonnell. She was educated at Sr. Patrick’s School and St. Joseph’s Convent. Although Cecilia (or Cecile as she was called) felt...
Mar 24, 1972 | Obituaries
Mary Alice Corrigan was born at St. Foy, Quebec on July 28, 1889, one of eight children of Thomas Corrigan and Helen McCartney, and was baptized three days later in the parish church of St. Foy. As a young woman she graduated from the Nurses’ Training School of the...
Mar 24, 1972 | Obituaries
Eva Poulin was born in Toledo, Ontario, on January 21, 1886, the daughter of William Poulin and Winnifred Jane Corcoran. She was baptized by Reverend Michael Spratt, later Archbishop of Kingston. When she was six years old her family moved to Smiths Falls where her...
Dec 23, 1971 | Obituaries
Sister Mary Zita has the distinction of having reached the most advanced age of any member of the Sisters of Providence, Kingston, since its foundation in 1861. When she died on December 28, 1971 she was 97 years and 5 months. When the Community was only thirty-seven...
