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Sister Mary Laurayne Mahoney, PBVM 1914-2003

CONNER, MAHONEY, WELCH, DONOVAN, QUINLAN, MULVEHILL, KUMMER

Posted By: Volunteer
Date: 7/13/2005 at 07:09:02

Sister Mary Laurayne Mahoney, PBVM

Sister Mary Laurayne Mahoney, PBVM, 89, died Thursday, November 20, 2003, at Mt. Loretto Motherhouse. Services were held Monday, November 24 at Mt. Loretto, with burial in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Key West. The Leonard Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Sister Laurayne was born in Lycurgus, Iowa, October 6, 1914. The daughter of Michael and Angeline (Connor) Mahoney, she entered the Sisters of the Presentation after graduation from St. Joseph High School, Mason City, Iowa, in 1932, and professed her perpetual vows on February 5, 1938. She received her BA degree in business education from Briar Cliff College, Sioux City, Iowa and her MA degree from Catholic University in Washington, D.C. Further graduate studies were done at Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa; University of Iowa; University of Northern Iowa; and Notre Dame University, Ind. Her teaching career spanned 69 years and took her to Waukon (1967-1969), Whittemore, Storm Lake, Mason City, Algona, Ft. Dodge, and Wahlert High School in Dubuque. Her ministries included principal, assistant librarian, archivist, and computer lab supervisor.

She retired to Mt. Loretto Motherhouse in 1995 where she continued with community service and prayer and her hobbies of reading, listening to music, and observing the wonders of nature until her death.

Surviving is her sister, Mrs. Beatrice Welch; many nieces, nephews, grandnieces, and grandnephews; and the Sisters of the Presentation with whom she shared her life for 71 years.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her brothers, Ambrose, Edward, and Peter Mahoney, and her sisters, Mrs. Mary Donovan, Mrs. Angela Quinlan, Mrs. Margaret Mulvehill, and Mrs. Bernadetta Kummer.

©Waukon Standard 2003
source: Waukon Standard, Waukon, Allamakee Co. IA, 12/3/2003


 

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