Submitted by: Dan Rich

Sister M. Ross Patrice O’Brien CSC

May 5, 1895 – Feb. 29, 1972

South Bend Tribune 2/28/1972

Sister M. Ross Patrice CSC, 78, of St. Mary’s Convent, died this morning in the convent. She was born May 5, 1895 in Cloyne, County Cork, Ireland, and as Mary O’Brien, entered the the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross June 23, 1922. She was assigned to housekeeping duties in convents in Utah, Washington DC, Maryland, Idaho and Indiana, including Holy Cross Convent here.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesdayday in the Church of Our Lady of Loretto, with burial in Our Lady of Peace Cemetery. Friends may call today and Wednesday in the convent parlors, where a rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. today.