Submitted by: Dan Rich

Sister M. Donata Maguire CSC

Aug. 1, 1855 – Nov. 5, 1947

South Bend Tribune 11/6/1947

Sister M. Donata CSC, 92, died at 5:15 p.m. Wednesday in Saint Mary’s Convent infirmary. She was born in County Clare, Ireland on Aug. 1 1855 as Bridgett L. Maguire. In 1880 she received the holy habit and was professed into the Holy Cross Order in 1882. She did missionary work for the order.

The requiem high mass will be sung by her nephew, Farther John Larkin, of Ypsilanti, Mich., Saturday morning in the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception as St. Mary’s, with burial in the community cemetery, also at St. Mary’s.