Submitted by: Dan Rich
June 7, 1900 – Aug. 24, 1984
South Bend Tribune 8/25/1984
Sister Mary Tarcisius, CSC, 84, of
St. Mary’s Convent, died at 11:45 a.m. Friday at the convent
after a lengthy illness. Born Grace Marie Smithers on June
7, 1900 in Beaver Brook, Pa., she entered the Congregation of the
Sisters of the Holy Cross at Saint Mary’s on Feb. 11, 1928,
coming from Elkhart. She was received as a novice Aug. 15, 1928,
and made her profession of vows Aug. 15, 1930
Sister Tarcisius taught in the primary
schools in New York, Washington DC, Lancaster, Pa., Virginia,
Maryland and Austin, Texas. She returned to the area in 1973 and
was assigned to St. Paul’s School in Valparaiso. Sister
Tarcisius returned to Saint Mary’s Convent in 1975.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at the
Church of Our Lady of Loretto. Burial will be in Our Lady of
Peace Cemetery at St. Mary’s. Friends may call today and
Sunday and until services Monday in Saint Mary’s Convent
Parlors, where a rosary will be recited at 2:45 p.m. Sunday, and
a wake service will be at 7 p.m. Sunday.