Submitted by: Dan Rich

Sister M. Arilda Lawler CSC

Apr. 14, 1883 – Mar.10, 1962

South Bend Tribune 3/10/1962

Sister M. Arilda CSC died this morning in the convent of the Provincial Hoiuse of the Sisters of the Holy Cr1oss. She was born in Liverpool, England on April 14, 1883 as Julis Ann Lawler. She entered the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross from Montreal in 1900 and made her profession of vows in 1906. She spent most of her early religious life in Baltimore, New York and Lancaster, Pa. Returning to the midwest, she won recognition as an outstanding primary school teacher, in Plymouth and Chicago. In 1931 she was assigned to St. Patrick’s School in South Bend where she developed the preschool program. She retired from teaching in 1953. Following a year as a member of the Ave Maria staff at Notre Dame, she took up residence in the Provincial House.

The requiem mass will beat 6 a.m. Monday in St. Mary’s Chapel. Burial will follow in the community cemetery. Friends may call tonight and Sunday in the convent parlor.