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 Marys
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. Marys,
with burial in Our Lady of Peace Cemetery on the campus. Friends
may call today and Wednesday in Saint Marys 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.