Clynch, Gertrude Ann Sister Mary Beata – Died 2000

CLYNCH, GRANGER

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 7/11/2016 at 15:32:17

Times Plain Dealer March 2, 2000, P.A2
from Elma library collection assembled by Marian (Marr) McGee

Funeral services for Sister Mary Beata of Farmington Hills, MI were held at 10:00 a.m. Friday, February 25 at McAuley Center Chapel. Interment was in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery.

Sister Mary Beata, a Sister of Mercy for 69 years, died February 23, 2000 at McAuley Retirement Center, Farmington Hills, following an extended illness.

Sister was born Gertrude Ann Clynch, daughter of Thomas and Alice Clynch, in Lourdes, and attended Our Lady of Lourdes School in Elma. At the age of 20, she joined the Sisters of Mercy at Mt. St. Agnes, Dubuque.

She was educated for her profession at Mercy College, Detroit, and the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., and earned a Masters Degree in Library Science at Rosary College, River Forest, IL.

Sister began her teaching career in elementary grades at St. Mary School, Larchwood. Through the years she taught in other Iowa schools, including Mt. Carmel, Waterloo (Eagle Center); St. Clement, Epworth (Bankston); Sacred Heart, Ackley and St. John, Independence.

In 1956 she became librarian at Our Lady of Mercy High School, then located in Detroit, and subsequently was librarian at Mt. Mercy Academy, Grand Rapids; St Mary, Bay City; and again in Iowa, at Mercy Medical Center in Dubuque, where she also served as patient care hostess.

In 1970 Sister Beata retired to a life of prayer at McAuley Convent on the campus of Loras College. She resided there until 1984, when she moved to the Farmington Hills retirement center.

Survivors include one sister: Alice Granger of Bourbonnais, IL.