Submitted by: Dan Rich
Sister M. Ann Josephine Konvicka CSC
Aug. 23, 1912 Aug. 27, 1988
South Bend Tribune 8/28/1988
Sister M. Ann Josephine Konvicka CSC,
76, of St. Marys Convent, died the Saturday morning. Born
Aug. 23, 1912 in Cleveland as Virginia Marie Konvicka, she
entered the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross at St.
Marys on Feb. 4, 1936 after coming from Los Angeles. She
was received as a novice Aug. 15, 1936 and made her profession of
vows on Aug. 15, 1938. She graduated from Mount St. Marys
Cvollege in Los Angeles in 1935, receiving a BA degree in
chemistry and a minor in English. She obtained an MA in 1945 from
the University of Utah, with a major in bacteriology and a minor
in biology, followed by a PhD in 1958 with a major in
bacteriology and paristology. She taught in the science
department at St. Marys College, Wasatch in Salt Lake City
from 1937 to 1958. Later she was assigned to Holy Cross Hospital
in Salt Lake City for work in research projects in the clinical
laboratory from 1958 to 1964. She was then assingned to St. Marys
Convent where she served until 1987, when she retired due to
illness.
A mass of the Resurrection will be at 3:30
p.m. Tuesday in the Church of Loretto, with burial in Our Lady of
Peace Cemetery on the campus. Friends may call after 3:30 p.m
Tuesday in the convent where a wake service will be at 7 p.m.