Submitted by: Dan Rich

Sister M. Gregoria Spear CSC

1898 - Apr. 19, 1966

South Bend Tribune 4/20/1966

Sister M. Gregoria CSC, died Tuesday morning in St. Joseph Hospital. She retired from teaching in 1963 because of illness. She was born Margaret Loretto Spear in Chicago in 1898, and received her early education at Blessed Sacrament School and graduated from St. James High School in Chicago. She received her B. A. degree at St. Mary’s College in 1919. She entered the Sisters of the Holy Cross and received her habit in 1920, and made her profession of vows in 1922. During her community life she was stationed in Washington DC; Alexandria, Va.; Los Angeles; Boise, Idaho; Woodstock and Danville, Ill.; Fort Wayne and Hammond and St. Mary’s Academy and St. Joseph High School in South Bend. She had resided at the Provincial House since her retirement. Survivors include a sister, Sister Edwardette BVM of Chicago.

The requiem high mass will be offered at St. Mary’s College in the Church of Our Lady of Loretto at 10 a.m. Thursday, with burial in Our Lady of Peace Cemetery on the campus. Friends may call at the convent parlors until 8 p.m. today.