Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Sister M. Ermelinda Pieniaskiewicz CSC

Jan. 13, 1877 – Apr. 28, 1941

 

South Bend Tribune 4/29/1941

Sister M. Ermelinda CSC, 64, a member of the Holy Cross community at St. Mary’s College, died in St. Mary’s infirmary Monday morning after a lengthy illness. She was born in South Bend Jan. 13, 1877, as Constance Pieniaskiewicz. She spent her entire religious life as a teacher at St. Hedwig’s School in South Bend, until health forced her retirement in 1934. Since that time she has resided at St. Mary’s Convent. She received the holy habit Aug. 15, 1896 and was professed Aug. 15, 1901.  Survivors include a sister, Sister M. Temasis CSC.

 

The requiem mass will be sung at 5:30 a.m. Wednesday in the convent Chapel of Our Lady of Loretto, with internment in the community cemetery at St. Mary’s.