Submitted by: Dan Rich

Sister M. Austin Hamer CSC

June 25, 1911 – Jan. 23, 1987

South Bend Tribune 1/24/1987

Sister M. Austin CSC, 75, of St. Joseph Convent, Harvard, Ill., died at 7 a.m. Friday in St. Anthony’s Hospital, Rockford, Ill. after as illness. Born Margaret Elizabeth Hamer on June 25, 1911, in Urbaba, Ill., she entered the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross at St. Mary’s on July 10, 1926 coming from Danville, Ill. She was received as a novice Aug. 15, 1927 and took her vows Aug. 15, 1929. She was an elementary school teacher serving in schools in Illinois; Utah; Idaho; and California from 1929 until 1981. She then served as hostess at St. Mary’s Generalate and Our Lady of Holy Cross Convent until 1984. She served as hostess of St. Joseph Convent House of Prayer, Harvard, Ill. until her illness.

Services will be at 4 p.m. Monday in the Church of Our Lady of Loretto at St. Mary’s with burial in Our Lady of Peace Cemetery on the campus. Friends may call Sunday in St. Mary’s Convent, where a wake will be at 5 p.m.