Submitted by: Dan Rich

Sister M. Rita Claire Lyons CSC

April 7, 1909 - Jan. 22, 1997

South Bend Tribune 1/23/1997

SOUTH BEND - Sister M. Rita Claire, CSC (Claire Esther Lyons), 87, of St. Mary's Convent, Notre Dame, died Wednesday in the convent.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in Church of Loretto, Saint Mary's College, where friends may call after 3 p.m. Friday and a wake service will be at 7 p.m. Friday. Hickey Funeral Home is handling arrangements.