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Sister Mary Redempta Collins, PBVM 1913-1998

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Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 6/14/2016 at 15:44:44

Sister Mary Redempta Collins, PBVM, 84, of Mount Loretto Motherhouse, died at 1:06 a.m. Thursday, March 5, 1998, at Mount Loretto Convent.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at Mount Loretto Chapel, with burial in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Key West, Iowa. Friends may call from 3 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the convent, where there will be a wake service at 4 p.m.

Sister Mary taught business education at St. Columbkille's, Dubuque, and other Iowa area schools. She also was a bookkeeper at the Archdiocesan office for many years, retiring in 1990. After retiring, she worked with groups making cord rosaries, which were given out by the National Rosary Crusade for America.

She was born on July 26, 1913, in Waukon, Iowa, daughter of James and Ida Rose (Stafford) Collins.

She entered the Presentation community on June 9, 1932, and made her final profession of religious vows on Dec. 28, 1940.

Surviving are a brother, Robert Collins, of Waukon, Iowa; and nieces and nephews.

Telegraph Herald (Dubuque, IA) - Saturday, March 7, 1998


 

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