Submitted by: Dan Rich

Sister M. Augustella Semortier CSC

1899 –Feb. 16, 1960

South Bend Tribune 2/17/1960

Sister M. Augustella CSC, head librarian at St. Mary’s College, died Tuesday noon in St. Joseph Hospital after an extended illness. She was born Constance Martha Semortier in South Bend in 1899. She was educated in St. Joseph Elementary School and at St. Mary’s College. She entered the Sisters of the Holy Cross in 1917 and received the holy habit in 1918, She made her profession of final vows in 1923. Before becoming head librarian at St. Mary’s in 1943, she was librarian at at St. Mary’s Academy. She also taught in the schools of St. Paul the Apostle in New York City; St. Teresa’s in Boise, Idaho; and St. Theodore’s in Chicago.

A requiem high mass will be offered at 6 a.m. Friday in the Church of Loretto, with burial in Our Lady of Peace Cemetery at St. Mary’s. Friends may call in the convent parlor at St. Mary’s.