Submitted by: Dan Rich
1900 – July 13, 1966
South Bend Tribune 7/13/1966
Sister Mary Veneranda CSC, 66, of the
Sisters of Holy Cross, died early today in Saint Mary’s
Convent. She was born in 1900 in Germany, receiving her early
education in Germany and completing her high school and college
education at St. Mary’s College. She came to the United
States in 1923 to enter the Sisters of the Holy Cross and
received the habit of the congregation in 1924. She made her
profession of vows in 1926. During her community life she was
assigned to schools in Salt Lake City, Utah; Morris, Woodstock
and Evergreen Park in Illinois; and Plymouth, Logansport and
Anderson in Indiana. Prior to her recent assignment at St. Mary’s
Convent in Michigan City, she taught at St. Patrick’s School
in South Bend.
The requiem high mass will be offered at 4
p.m. Thursday in Our Lady of Loretto Church at St. Mary’s
College, with burial in Our Lady of Peace Cemetery on the campus.
Friends may call at the convent parlor.
Editor: Baptismal name taken from CSC
archives as Caroline Fritz.