Submitted by: Dan Rich
Sister Mary Leon Ewen CSC
Mar. 18, 1907 – Jan. 1, 1976
South Bend Tribune 1/2/1976
Sister Mary Leon CSC, 68, died Thursday
evening in St. Mary’s Convent, after a short illness. Born
March 18, 1907 in Marengo, Ill. as Marguerite Teresa Ewen,
she entered the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross on
June 24, 1924. She was received as a novice Jan. 6, 1925 and made
her profession on Jan. 6, 1927. She taught in St. Patrick’s
School and Holy Cross School in South Bend. She also taught in
schools in Anderson, Elkhart, Logansport, Michigan City, Plymouth
and in Illinois. She had lived at the convent since 1973.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in Our
Lady of Loretto Church and burial will be in Our Lady of Peace
Cemetery on the campus. Friends may call in the convent parlors,
where a rosary will be recited at 7:15 p.m. today.