Submitted by: Dan Rich
Sister Mary Paul Cooney CSC
June 16, 1893 – June 27, 1974
South Bend Tribune 6/27/1974
Sister Mary Paul CSC, 81, of Saint
Mary’s Convent, died at 7:25 a.m. today in St. Joseph
Hospital, South Bend. She had served as assistant to the director
of novices at St. Mary’s Convent since 1969, and had taught
in elementary schools in New York, Texas, Virginia and Washington
DC. She born June 16, 1893 in Lancaster, Ohio as Elva Catherine
Cooley, and entered the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy
Cross on Jan. 24, 1921.
Friends may call Friday at St. Mary’s Convent where a wake will be held at 7 p.m. Friday. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Loretto Chapel with burial in Our Lady of Peace Cemetery, both at St. Mary’s.