Submitted by: Dan Rich

Sister M. Basil Fraser CSC

Jan. 26, 1902 – July 23, 1986

South Bend Tribune 7/24/1986

Sister M. Basil Fraser CSC, 84, of St. Mary’s Convent, died there at 4 p.m. Wednesday in the convent after an illness. Sister Fraser was a teacher and taught elementary grades her entire community life. She was born Jan. 26, 1902 in Tyler, Texas as Mary Frances Fraser. She is survived by a sister, Bessie McBride of Texas.

Sister Fraser was assigned to St. Patrick’s School in South Bend in 1924, and taught there for a year. Her other assignments in Indiana were in Elkhart and East Chicago. She served in Baltimore, New York, Ocean Vies, Va., and Washington DC, and taught for three years at St. Patrick’s, Cairo, Ill., before being assigned to the Texas missions in Marshall, Texas, from 1931 to 1941, and Austin, Texas from 1953 to 1985. She came to Saint Mary’s in 1985 because of failing health.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday in Our Lady of Loretto Church at Saint Mary’s and burial will be in Our Lady of Peace Cemetery. Friends may call today and until the services Friday in St. Mary’s Convent Parlors, where a wake will be at 7 p.m. today.