Submitted by: Dan Rich
South Bend Tribune 10/12/1959
Sister M. Hughetta CSC, died early Sunday
morning in St. Joseph Hospital after a brief illness. She was
born Anney Heavey in Ireland in 1890, the daughter of Michael
Heavey and Bridget Quinn Heavey. She entered the Congregation of
the Sisters of the Holy Cross in 1915 and received the habit of
the sisterhood the same year. She made her profession of final
vows in 1920. During her community life Sister Hughetta served at
Harvard, Chatsworth, Chicago and Woodstock, Ill., LaPorte,
Hammond and St. Mary’s in South Bend, and at Idaho Falls,
Idaho. Her most recent assignment was at the Provincial House in
South Bend, where she served until this month.
Surviving are three sisters, Mrs. James
Murray of Chicago, and Mrs. Marie Cunningham and Mrs. Margaret
McLaughlin, both of Galway, Ireland, and three brothers, Luke
Heavey of Chicago, James Heavey of Galway, and Martin Heavey of
Yorkshire, England.
A requiem high mass will be offered in the
Church of Our Lady of Loretto at St. Mary’s at 8:30 a.m.
Tuesday. Burial will be in Our Lady of Peace Cemetery there.
Friends may call in the convent parlor.