Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Sister M. Lorettyn Coen CSC

May 17, 1893 – May 29, 1988

 

South Bend Tribune 5/31/1988

Services for Sister M. Lorettyn Coen CSC, 95 of Saint Mary’s Convent, who died there at 9 p.m. Sunday, will be conducted at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Church of Loretto at St. Mary’s, with burial in Our Lady of Peace Cemetery on the campus. Friends may call today and Wednesday in Saint Mary’s Convent where a wake will be at 7 p.m. today.

 

She was born May 17, 1893 in Davenport, Iowa, as Agnes Coen. She entered the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross on Sept. 8, 1911. She was received as a novice Dec. 10, 1911 and made her profession of vows Dec. 10, 1913. She was a teacher and assigned to  secondary schools in Michigan City and Hammond, Ind.; Morris, Ill.; Woodstock, Ill.; Slat Lake City; Los Angeles; and Boise, Idaho. She served as librarian from 1968 to 1979

At Our Lady of Holy Cross Convent.