Sister Amadeo
Heupel CSC, 75, of St. Mary’s Convent, died Wednesday
afternoon in the convent. She was born in 1897 in Buffalo Center,
Iowa, and spent her childhood in LaPorte. She entered the Holy
Cross order in 1915. She graduated from St. Mary’s College
and received her graduate degrees in biology from the University
of Notre Dame and in nursing from Catholic University of Amerina
in Washingto DC. She was stationed 10 years at Mt. Carmel
Hospital, Mt. Carmel, Ill., where she was director of nurses. She
established the Department of Nursing at St. Mary’s College
and headed the department from 1935 to 1962. After her
retirement, as professor emertius at St. Mary’s College, she
continued to be active in the science department.
Friends may call in
the convent where a rosary will be recited at 7:30 p.m. today.
Services will be at p a.m. Friday in Our Lady of Loretto Church
with burial in Our Lady of Peace Cemetery..
Editor: From St. Mary’s archives her
baptisimal name was Dorothy Lucille Heupel.