Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Sister M. Eliza Quinn CSC

May 10, 1857 – Dec. 20, 1943

 

South Bend Tribune 12/20/1943

Sister M. Eliza CSC, 86, of St. Mary’s Convent, died early this morning in the community infirmary on the campus. She had been ill only one day with heart trouble. She was born in Donnegal, Ireland, May 10, 1857, and came to thid country 56 years ago from there.

 

A requiem mass will be sung Tuesday morning in the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception at St. Mary’s. Burial will be in the community cemetery on the campus.

 

Editor: From St. Mary’s archives her baptismal name was Mary Quinn.