Submitted by: Dan Rich

Sister M. Isabel Risher CSC

Jan. 22, 1870 – Nov. 7, 1945

South Bend Tribune 11/7/1945

Sister M. Isabel CSC, 75, of Saint Mary’s Convent, died this morning in the convent infirmary. She was born Catherine Risher, Jan, 22, 1870, in Austin, Texas. In 10899 at St. Mary’s Convent she received the holy habit and in 1904 was professed. While at St. Mary’s she taught history at the college and also at St. Joseph Academy.

Funeral services will be Friday morning in the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception, with burial in the community cemetery at St. Mary’s.