Submitted by: Dan Rich
Sister M. Majella McCue CSC
1886 – Aug. 19, 1959
South Bend Tribune 8/20/1959
Sister M. Majella CSC, died Wednesday
afternoon in Saint Mary’s Convent after an extended illness.
She was born Julia McCue, the daughter of George McCue and Julia
Seeley, in Boise, Idaho in 1886. She was educated in Salt Lake
City, Utah and Fort Wayne, and entered the Congregation of the
Sisters of the Holy Cross in 1905, receiving the habit of the
sisterhood the same year. She made her profession of vows in
1911. During her community life she was stationed at St. Mary’s;
Salt Lake City; Austin, Tex.; Morris and Harvard, Ill.; New York
City; and Washington DC. She retired to St. Mary’s Convent
when she became ill. Surviving are two sisters; Sister M. Sienna
CSC, and Sister M. Diomira CSC.
Friends may call in the convent parlors. The
requiem high mass will be offered at 7 a.m. Friday in the Church
of Our Lady of Loretto and burial will be in Our Lady of Peace
Cemetery on the campus.