Sister Mary Daniel SULLIVAN

SULLIVAN, CASHMAN, HOLROYD, GEBEL, MCAVOY, GOERGEN, HOCKINSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/4/2013 at 13:26:14

April 9, 1887 --- May 10, 1973

Service for 86-Year-Old Sister, Native of Elma

Sister Mary Daniel Sullivan, 86, died May 10 in Queen of Angels infirmary at the Sacred Heart convent. She was born on April 9, 1887, at Elma. She entered the congregation of the Sisters of Mercy June 4, 1906, being the first girl from the Immaculate Conception Parish in Elma to join the Sisters of Mercy. She professed her final vows August 20, 1909. Sister Mary Daniel taught in the following parochial schools: St. Xavier's, Manchester; St. Mary's, Grand Junction; St. Patrick's, Fairfax; St. Cecelia's, Ames; St. John's, Clarion; Sacred Heart, Waterloo; St. Benedict's, Decorah; St. Patrick's, Anamosa; Immaculate Conception, St. Wenceslaus, and All Saint in Cedar Rapids, and Our Lady of Grace, Edina, Minn.

Surviving are two sisters, Lydia Cashman, Elma, and Mary Holroyd, Anaheim, Calif., and a brother, Thomas Sullivan, Des Moines. Services were Saturday at 11:00 a.m. in Sacred heart chapel by Msgr. Timothy Gannon as celebrant, and the Rev. William Leonard, homilist. Burial was in Mt. Calvary cemetery. Rosemary Gebel and Mrs. Joe McAvoy of Alta Vista, Jane Sullivan of Waterloo, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Goergen of Osage, Mrs. Marvin Hockinson and Mrs. Lydia Cashman attended the funeral. Mrs. Cashman had been in Cedar Rapids the entire week.

Times-Plain Dealer -- Cresco, Iowa
May 18, 1973

Note: Surname corrected today based on information from grandniece although the newspaper spelled the surname Halroyd. K De Groote 05/08/23

Here is quote from Grandma Holroyd courtesy of Mary Beth Holroyd Nagareda:
Grandma Mary always used to say "I don’t care how they pronounce it just spell it correctly!"
Thank you Mary Beth