Submitted by: Dan Rich

Sister M. Charles Schauers CSC

Oct. 13, 1917 – May 27, 1990

South Bend Tribune 5/28/1990

Sister M. Charles Schauers CSC, 72, a longtime area schoolteacher and former religious superior at Saint Mary’s Convent, died at 7:18 p.m. Saturday at the convent after an illness. She was born Ethel Catherine Schauers on Oct. 13, 1917, in Chicago. She entered the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross on July 2, 1936; was received as a novice Feb. 2, 1937; and professed her final vows on Feb. 2, 1939. She was a graduate of St. Mary’s College and the former St. Mary’s Academy. She taught at St. Patrick’s School; St. Mary’s Campus School and schools in Elkhart, Michigan City and East Chicago. She also taught in Morris, Peoria and Cairo, Ill. Her 44-year teaching career ended in 1974.

From 1974 to 1980 she was in charge of ministry to senior citizens of Starke County. In 1980 she assumed the position of ministry to the elderly at St. John’s Medical Center in Anderson, Ind. In 1981 she was assigned as religious superior of St. Mary’s Convent. From 1984 to 1989 she was in charge of geriatric services at St. John’s Medical Center, retiring in 1989. She received her master’s degree from Loyola University of Chicago in 1958 and her certificate in gerontology in 1973.

Services will be at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Church of Loretto with burial in Our Lady of Peace Cemetery, St. Mary’s. Friends may call after 3 p.m. Tuesday at the convent, where a wake will be at 7 p.m.