Submitted by: Dan Rich
Sister M. Xavier Therese Murphy CSC
Oct. 9, 1913 May 7, 1970
South Bend Tribune 5/8/1970
Sister M. Xavier Therese CSC, 57,
former teacher at St. Joseph High School in South Bend, died
Thursday in St. Catherines Hospital in East Chicago, Ind.
after a short illness. Born Mary Agnes Murphy on Oct. 9,
1913 in Milwaukee, she entered the Congregation of the Sisters of
the Holy Cross on July 6, 1931. She received the habit on Jan. 4,
1932 and professed her vows in 1934. She was a graduate of
Marquette University in Milwaukee, and a graduate student of
journalism. She taught in various elementary and high schools in
Indian and Illinois, and in 1953 to 1964 she was assigned to St.
Joseph High School.
Services will be Saturday morning at St.
Margaret Mary Church in Hammond, Ind. The body will then be taken
to St. Marys Convent at St. Marys College, where
visitors may call from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday. Burial will be at 5
p.m. Saturday in Our Lady of Peace Cemetery on the campus.