Submitted by: Dan Rich
Sister Maria Consolata Voss CSC
Jan 1, 1897 Feb. 1, 1988
South Bend Tribune 2/2/1988
Sister Maria Consolata Voss CSC, 91, of
Saint Marys Convent died at 3:05 p.m. Monday in the cnvent.
She was born Jan. 1, 1897 as Charlotte Anne Voss, in Leetonia,
Ohio. She entered the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy
Cross, at St. Marys, on Feb. 12, 1924 coming from Harvey,
Ill. She was received as a novice on Aug. 15, 1924 and made her
profession Aug. 15, 1926. She was a graduate of St. Marys
College; the University of Illinois, and the University of Notre
Dame. She taught in science departments of St. Marys
Academy and St. Marys College from 1925 to 1934 and 1941 to
1951. Other assignments were at St. Mary of the Walsatch, Salt
Lake City from 1951 to 1954; Dunbarton College of Holy Cross,
Washington DC; and Cardinal Cushing College, Brookline, Mass.
from 1966 to 1972. She taught science in Mount Carmel Hospital
School of Nursing, Columbus, Ohio, and was an instructor at Holy
Cross Hospital, Silver Spring, Md. from 1955 to 1966. She retired
to St. Marys Convent in 1972.
Services will be at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at
Our Lady of Loretto Church with burial in Our Lady of Peace
Cemetery, St. Marys. Friends may call today and Wednesday
at St. Marys Convent Parlors, where a wake will be at 7
p.m. today.