Submitted by: Dan Rich

Sister Mary Edwardine Murphy CSC

1872 – Dec. 12, 1954

South Bend Tribune 12/13/1954

Sister Mary Edwardine CSC, of the convent at the University of Notre Dame, died there Saturday after a long illness. Funeral services were held there today with burial in the community cemetery there. She was born Margaret Murphy in St. Joseph, Mich. in 1872. She was educated in public school there. She entered the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross in 1902 and took her final vows in 1907. She spent most of her religious life in missions in the midwest province and was assigned to Notre Dame the last several years. Surviving are a brother, Rev. Timothy Murphy CSC of Notre Dame, and three sisters.