Submitted by: Dan Rich
Sister Mary Josina Shanley CSC
June 23, 1892 Mar. 21, 1980
South Bend Tribune 3/22/1980
Sister Mary Josina CSC, 87, died at 12:15
p.m. Friday in Saint Marys Convent. Born on June 23, 1892
in Bornacoola, County Letrim, Ireland, as Catherine Shanley, she
entered the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross on Feb.
2, 1917. She was received as a novice in 1917 and made her
profession in 1919. She was assigned to St. Cecilas
Academy, Washington DC, from 1918 to 1926, and entered Mount
Carmel Hospital School of Nursing, Columbus, Ohio in 1926,
graduating in 1929. Following graduation she spent her community
life in nursing at St. Carmel Hospital in Columbus. She came to
St. Marys Convent in 1976, when sue retired. She is
survived by two sisters, both of New York City.
Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in Our
Lady of Loretto Church with burial in Our Lady of Peace Cemetery,
St. Marys. Friends may call today and Sunday in St. Marys
Convent Parlors, where a wake service will be conducted at 7 p.m.
today.