Submitted by: Dan Rich
Sister Maria Gemma Mulcaire CSC
Aug. 18, 1896 Mar. 22, 1982
South Bend Tribune 3/23/1982
Sister Maria Gemma CSC, 85, of Saint
Marys Convent, died at 9:50 p.m. Monday in St. Joseph
Medical Center following a brief illness. She was born Ella M.
Mulcaire on Aug. 18, 1896 in Limerick, Ireland and entered the
Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross at St. Marys
on Jan. 6, 1915 coming from Chicago. Surviving are two sisters, Sister
Aloysia Marie CSC of Holy Cross School in South Bend and
Katherine Mulcaire in Ireland, and three brothers, Patrick and
Gene Mulcaire of South Bend, and Stephen of Ireland.
She was received as a novice on Jan. 6, 1915
and took her final vows on Aug. 15, 1917. She was assigned to
teach in elementary schools conducted by the Sisters of Holy
Cross. She taught in South Bend, St. Mary of the Lake in Gary,
Fort Wayne, Elkhart, Michigan City, LaPorte and East Chicago. She
also taught in Chicago; Austin, Texas; Davenport, Iowa; and
Washington DC. She has resided at Saint Marys Convent since
1978.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in Our
Lady of Loretto and burial will be in Our Lady of Peace Cemetery,
St. Marys. A wake service will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
Friends may call until services at St. Marys Convent
Parlors.