Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Sister Mary Emily Wilkinson CSC

Apr. 10, 1870 – Oct. 19, 1948

 

South Bend Tribune 10/19/1948

Sister Mary Emily CSC, 78, of Saint Mary’s Convent, died this morning in the convent infirmary after a short illness. She was born in Noble County, Ind. April 10, 1870, and was a member of St. Mary’s for 55 years. She had served as a teacher at Sacred Heart Academy in Fort Wayne; and St. Theresa Academy in Boise, Idaho.

 

A requiem mass will be celebrated at 6 a.m. Wednesday in the Immaculate Conception Chapel at the convent and funeral services will take place at 4 p.m. Wednesday with burial in the community cemetery at the convent. The body is in the parlor at the convent.

 

Editor: From St. Mary’s archives her baptismal name was Julia C. Wilkinson.