Submitted by: Dan Rich
Sister M. Casimir Jurek CSC
About 1864 – Aug. 29, 1939
South Bend Tribune 8/30/1939
Sister M. Casimir CSC, 75, a former teacher
in St. Hedwig School, South Bend, died at 8:45 a.m. Tuesday in
St. Joseph Hospital, South Bend. She was one of the pioneer
teachers in St. Hedwig Parish and began her teaching duties in
the grade school of the parish in 1888, with the late Sister M.
Verena CSC. It was the year when after a fire which destroyed the
original wooden school, the present three-story brick structure
was opening She was born in Poland and came here from Chicago.
Her maiden name was Miss Thecia Jurek. Twelve years ago she
retired to St. Mary’s Convent after a long period of
teaching the fourth and fifth grades of the school.
The funeral mass will be said at 7 a.m. Thursday in the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception at St. Mary’s and the funeral will follow at 10 a.m. in the convent cemetery. Friends are being received in the community infirmary at St. Mary’s.