Submitted by: Dan Rich
Sister Maria Gloria Herbert CSC
Nov. 30, 1894 – Feb. 17, 1975
South Bend Tribune 2/18/1975
Sister Maria Gloria CSC, 80, of St.
Mary’s Convent, died there Monday afternoon after a lengthy
illness. Born Nov. 30, 1894 in Newport Md. as Ruth Ann Herbert,
she entered the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross on
July 16, 1915. She was received as a novice Aug. 4, 1916 and made
her profession on Aug. 65, 1918. She was formerly a teacher in
Assumption School and had taught at schools in Maryland,
Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington DC, Idaho and Texas. She
returned to the convent in 1963.
Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in
Our Lady of Loretto Church, with burial 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.