Submitted by: Dan Rich
Sister M. Ann Joachim Tierney CSC
Mar. 24, 1902 Aug. 14, 1988
South Bend Tribune 8/15/1988
Services for Sister M. Ann Joachim Tierney
CSC, 86, of Saint Marys Convent, who died at 7 p.m.
Saturday in the convent, will be at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in Our Lady
of Loretto Church, with burial in Our Lady of Peace Cemetery, St.
Marys. Friends may call until services in St. Marys
Convent Parlors, where a wake will be at 7 p.m. today.
Sister Tierney was born March 24, 1902 in
New Quay, County Clare, Ireland. She is survived by a sister,
Sister Mildred Tierney of Syracuse, NY. She entered the
Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross at St. Marys,
Oct. 9, 1928, coming from Ireland. She was received as a novice
Aug. 15, 1929, and professed her vows Aug. 15, 1931. She was
assigned to teaching and served at Holy Cross School from 1932 to
1934, and also taught in Pennsylvania, Illinois and California.