Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Sister M. Fransita Kane CSC

Jan. 20, 1909 – Dec. 1, 1996

 

South Bend Tribune 12/2/1993

Sister M. Fransita Kane CSC, 84, of Saint Mary’s Convent, died at 6:25 a.m. Wednesday in her residence. She was born Jan. 20, 1909 in Pocatello, Idaho as Dorothy Honore Kane. She entered the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross at St. Mary’s on July 2, 1927; was received as a novice on Aug. 15, 1928; and professed her vows on Aug. 15, 1930. She was assigned to elementary, secondary and college education and served in California from 1930 to 1941; College of Saint Mary of the Wasatch, Salt Lake City; St. Mary’s College; Notre Dame and Catholic University of America, Washington DC, as a research analyst. She did research and writing at St. Mary’s from 1977 to 1991.

 

Services will be said at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in the Church of Our Lady of Loretto at St. Mary’s with burial in Our Lady of Peace Cemetery at St. Mary’s. Friends may call in the convent parlor after 3 p.m. Friday in the church, where a wake will be at 7:30 p.m.