Submitted by: Dan Rich

Sister M. Augusta Conlon CSC

Sept. 9, 1889 – July 16, 1980

South Bend Tribune 7/17/1980

Sister M. Augusta CSC, 90, died at 6 a.m. Wednesday after a lengthy illness. Born Mary Ann Conlon on Sept. 9, 1889 in Shannon, Ireland, she entered the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross at St. Mary’s on May 3, 1919, coming from Roscommon, Ireland. She was received as a novice on Jan. 6, 1920 and professed her final vows on Jan. 6, 1922. She served as an administrator to establishments of the Holy Cross throughout the country, including orphanages in Maryland and hospital in Illinois and Columbus, Ohio. She came to St. Mary’s convent in 1971, where she resided until the time of her death.

Services will be at 4 p.m. Friday in the Church of Our Lady of Loretto at St. Mary’s with internment in Our Lady of Peace Cemetery on the campus. Friends may call in the convent parlors today and tomorrow. A wake will be observed at 7 p.m. today.