Submitted by: Dan Rich
Sister Josepha Maria Murray CSC
1893 – May 17, 1967
South Bend Tribune 5/18/1967
Sister Josepha Maria CSC died at St.
Mary’s Convent Wednesday evening following a long illness.
She was born Mary Alice Murray in Rantoul, Illinois in
1893. She received her early education in Rantoul and her high
school at Mount Saint Joseph in Dubuque, Iowa. Upon completion of
her nurse’s traing at St. Joseph Hospital in South Bend, she
entered the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross in
August, 1918 and made her profession of vows in 1920. During her
community life she was on duty at Mount Carmel Hospital in
Columbus, Ohio from 1919 to 1943, when she was assigned to
nursing duty at St. Mary’s Convent infirmary. She was head
nurseat the infirmary for several years and was on duty until
recently assisting in the infirmary.
A requiem mass will be at 11 a.m. Friday in the Church of Our
Lady of Loretto and burial will follow in Our Lady of Peace
Cemetery on the campus. Friends may call at the convent parlor
until 8 p.m. today and until the hour of the mass on Friday.