Submitted by: Dan Rich

Sister Mary Hildetta Connell CSC

1878 – May 4, 1954

South Bend Tribune 5/6/1954

Services for Sister Mary Hildetta CSC will be Friday in St. Marys Convent and burial will be there.

She died after a prolonged illness in St. Joseph Hospital, South Bend, on Wednesday. She was born Clara Hellen Connell in Michigan City in 1878, and entered the congregation in 1893 after attending St. Mary’s School in Michigan City. She received the habit in 1894 and made her profession of vows in 1899. Unitl her retirement she taught in the western and midwestern provinces of the congregation.