Sister Mary Rose O'Toole

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Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 6/18/2008 at 07:42:17

Maquoketa Excelsior
March 29, 1890

Death of a Nun.

Sister Mary Rose, of the Mother House of the Sisters of Charity, died at St. Joseph’s Convent in Dubuque the other evening. She was one of the original founders of the order in America. She came to this country in 1883 from Dublin, Ireland, in company with four others, and located in Dubuque in 1843. She was the last of the five sisters. Her family name was O’Toole.