Submitted by: Dan Rich
1870 – June 27, 1958
South Bend Tribune 6/27/1958
Sister M. Irene CSC, of the Sisters of Holy Cross, died early
today in St. Mary’s Convent, Notre Dame, after an extended
illness. She was born as Alice Veronica Conlon, in Baltimore,
Md., in 1870, the daughter of Andrew J. Conlon and Veronica F. Dunn.
Sister Irenee was educated in Baltimore and entered the
Congregation of the Sister of Holy Cross in 1899, receiving the
habit of the congregation the same year. She made her
professional of final vows in 1905.
During her community life Sister Irenee was missioned at St.
Mary’s Academy, Notre Dame; St. Joseph’s Academy, South
Bend; St. Mary’s, Woodstock, Ill., and for several years was
in various missiones of the Eastern Province. She came to the
convent from the Eastern Province for retirement.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. H. M. Steveson and Miss
Katherine Conlon, and two brothers, Edgar Conlon and Charles
Conlon, all of Baltimore.
A Requiem High Mass will be sung at 7 a.m. Saturday in the
Church of Our Lady of Loretto. Burial will be at 5 p.m. Saturday
in Our Lady of Peace Cemetery. Friends may call in the convent
parlor.