Submitted by: Dan Rich
1836 – Oct. 16, 1914
South Bend Tribune 10/16/1914
Sister Mary Bertha CSC, 78, died
early this morning in St. Mary’s Convent. She was financial
secretary for the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy
Cross for the past 40 years. She was born as Mary McDermont
in 1836 in Ireland. She entered the convent of the Holy Cross
in 1853, and professed her vows in 1857. In 1958 she was sent to
open the school of the Immaculate Conception in Morris, Ill. In
1861 she was placed in charge of the orphans at St. Joseph asylum
in Washington DC. In 1969 was was assigned as bookkeeperat St.
Mary’s infirmary in Cairo, Ill., and the to Joliet, Ill, and
in 1874 she was assigned to St. Mary’s here.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday
at the chapel.