These are not typical obituaries, in fact in the world of consecrated life we refer to them as necrologies. These biographical sketches are written by the General Secretary of the congregation shortly after the death of each individual sister. The necrologies are historical documents and may contain errors, including variations in spellings and incorrect dates. The necrologies are presented here as they were written.
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Sister Mary Brendan died on Thursday, December 22nd at 6.00 p.m., after a lengthy illness. Bridget Agnes Walsh was a native of County Mayo, Ireland and left her native land fifty-five years ago to join the Sisters of Providence Community in Kingston. This young girl...
Sister Mary Aurea died early on Tuesday morning, August 2nd in St. Francis General Hospital, Smiths Falls, where she had been a patient for three months, suffering from a serious heart condition. Sister was the former Mary Loretta Farrell of Stoco, Ontario, her...
Sister Mary John Baptist, the former Julia Lynett, died on Sunday, July 3rd, 1960, at the Marian Infirmary, “Heathfield”, where she has been a patient for over three months. Sister was born in Westport, a daughter of the later Thomas Lynett and Julia O’Donoghue, and...
Sister Mary Martina died at St. Vincent de Paul Hospital, Brockville, June 22, 1960. She had been ill in the Infirmary at the Mother House, for over two years and returned to Brockville Hospital a few months ago suffering from a broken hip. For the last several years...
Sister Mary Pauline whose death occurred on April 11th at St. Vincent de Paul Hospital, Brockville after a short illness, was the former Marcella McKeown of Tamworth, Ont. She had completed fifty-five years of religious life, and until three years ago was doing...
Sister Mary Harold (Anne Fowler) died suddenly on January 27, at the Marian Infirmary, Heathfield. Born at Mount Chesney, Ontario, near Kingston she was the daughter of Patrick Fowler and Mary Dillon. In 1907 she entered the Novitiate at the House of Providence, and...
Sister Mary Consilii died at the Marian Infirmary, “Heathfield” after a lengthy illness, on Friday evening, June 5th, Feast of the Sacred Heart. A native of Sterling, Ontario, she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Foley of that locality. Sarah Foley, as Sister was...
On February 28, 1959, the Community suffered the loss of a member of the General Council, Rev. Mother Mary Dorothea. Though she had reached the advanced age of 84, Mother Dorothea had been on duty until September 1958 and remained mentally alert until three weeks...
On Thursday, February 19, the Sisters of Providence lost a venerable religious in the person of Sister Mary of Mercy, who was in the sixtieth year of her religious life. The former Margaret Corrigan was a native of Kingston, a daughter of Daniel Corrigan and Margaret...
A Sister who could be of much use to her Community for many more years has been called by death to join the ever-increasing ranks of our dear departed in eternity. For more than a year the dread disease of cancer had marked for its prey our dear little Sister Mary...
If a long life of patient suffering makes a saint, we have one more added to our list in eternity, D.V. Sister Mary Peter for well nigh fifty-five years a member of the Community, died at St. Vincent de Paul Hospital, Brockville on Thursday, May 29th, after an illness...
Sister Mary Justin, for forty-one years a member of our Community, died here at this Mother House, Tuesday, May 27th after a lingering illness of several years. In 1954 she was transferred, with a number of sick Sisters, from the House of Providence to our new Marian...
Sister Mary Kevin died at the Marian Infirmary on Friday, April 18, 1958, after an illness of some five years. Born in the parish of Killasser, County Mayo, Ireland, Catherine McNulty, as Sister was known, she came to Canada in April 1914 to enter the Novitiate of the...
Sister Mary Damian died early Friday morning, Jan. 31st, between five and eight o’clock at the Marian Infirmary. When Sister went to her room with her breakfast around 8 a.m., she was shocked to find Sister M. Damian dead. The night Sister reported that she had been...
Sister Mary Loyola, Alice Whelan, died at the Marian Infirmary, Heathfield, on September 15th, the beautiful Feast of Our Mother of Sorrows, to whom she had special devotion. Sister was born in Westport, Ontario, daughter of the late John Whelan and Jane Patterson....
Sister Mary Gerard, Ellen Traynor, died at the Marian Infirmary, Heathfield, Wednesday, September 4th, 1957. Born in Carlton Place, Sister entered the Novitiate at the House of Providence, Kingston, in January 1904, the third of her family to accept a vocation to...
Sister Mary Dorothy (Mary Agnes Coyne) of our Community died suddenly at the Hotel Dieu, Kingston, on Sunday, August 18th. Born in Chesterville, Sister was the daughter of Patrick Coyne and Norah Kain, pioneer residents of that locality. In 1906 she entered the...
Sister Mary Benedict died quite suddenly on Sunday evening, August 11, during the annual retreat. Sister had complained of not feeling well and took a light supper only. While preparing for bed, the Sister Infirmarian noticed her slumping in her chair and called at...
Sister Mary Sebastian died Wednesday night, May 29th, in the Marian Infirmary, Providence Mother House, Heathfield. Margaret Gilleran was born in Brockville, daughter of James Gilleran and Mary Fee. At an early age she became associated with her Sisters at St. Vincent...
Sister Mary Eleanor, Elizabeth Shanahan, died Tuesday, April 16, at St. Vincent de Paul Hospital, Brockville, where she had been a patient for the past three years. Sister’s birthplace was Fortune Harbour, Newfoundland and her parents were Thomas Shanahan and...
