Submitted by: Dan Rich

Sister Mary Una Garrity CSC

1883 – May 22, 1965

South Bend Tribune 5/23/1965

Sister Mary Una CSC, 82, former provincial superior of the Sisters of Holy Cross, Midwest Province, died Saturday in Saint Mary’s Convent after a long illness. She had served as provincial superior from 1942 to 1943d from 1945 to 1951. During the interim she was superior at St. Cecelia in Washington DC. She was born Helen Garrity in 1853 in Chatsworth, Ill. After attending schools in Chatsworth she entered the Sisters of the Holy Cross in 1906, and in 1906 she received the habit of the Congregation. She made her professional vows in 1908. During her community life she taught at St. Paul’s Academy and Holy Cross Academy, both in Washington DC; and was also superior at Woodstock, Ill.; New York City; Lancaster, Pa. and Chicago. From 1957 to 1961 she was at St. Joseph School in South Bend, retiring to the convent in 1961.

Services will be held Monday morning, with burial in Our Lady of Peace Cemetery on the campus of St. Mary’s College. Friends may call Sunday in the convent parlors.