Submitted by: Dan Rich

Sister M. Josephus Purman CSC

May 25, 1901 – Mar. 20, 1982

South Bend Tribune 3/21/1982

Sister M. Josephus CSC, 80, of Saint Mary’s Convent, died at 7:15 a.m. Saturday in the convent following a lengthy illness. Born Mary McGuran Purman on May 25, 1901 in Waynesburg, Pa., she was received as a novice at St. Mary’s in 1921 and was granted her profession on Aug. 15, 1923. She was a music teacher assigned to teach in schools in Elkhart, Chicago and Chatsworth, Ill. She spent much of her religious life working in California.

Services will be at 9 a.m. at Our Lady of Loretto Church with burial in Our Lady of Peace Cemetery, St. Mary’s. Friends may call until the time of services at St. Mary’s Convent Parlors where a wake service will be held at 7 p.m. today.