Sister Mauritia Edelen

Date of Birth: January 23, 1912
Date of Death: October 17, 1988
Age at Death: 76 years
Marker Location: Row I No. 37

Mauritia was the daughter of John and Della Mae Cecil Edelen, born January 23, 1912, in Louisville, Ky. Except for her senior year, Mauritia attended Holy Cross School in Holy Cross, beginning in the first grade. She enrolled in Mount Saint Joseph Academy for her senior year. After she graduated in 1931, Mauritia spent a…

Sister Mary Rudolph Castile

Date of Birth: December 8, 1896
Date of Death: September 30, 1988
Age at Death: 91 years
Marker Location: Row J No. 44

Born December 8, 1896, in Elizabethtown, Ky., Catherine was the daughter of William and Florence Thomas Castile. The Castile family moved to Stithton when Catherine was 6 years old. Her formal education began at Stithton Public School. The Ursulines from Mount Saint Joseph opened St. Patrick School in Stithton in 1913, and Catherine attended school…

Sister Joseph Benjamin Buckman

Date of Birth: December 31, 1903
Date of Death: September 15, 1988
Age at Death: 84 years
Marker Location: Row C No. 45

Born Dec. 31, 1903, to Joseph Oliver “Ollie” and Elizabeth Lenora Shelton Buckman of Calvary, Ky., Inez was the second of 14 children. Her first years of formal education were at Moores Creek School near Jessetown. Inez completed the seventh and eighth grades and high school at Mount Saint Joseph Academy. After entering the novitiate…

Sister Mary Rose Lyvers

Date of Birth: May 13, 1901
Date of Death: August 13, 1988
Age at Death: 87 years
Marker Location: Row D No. 45

Pauline was born May 13, 1901, one of the six children born to William and Rose Hayden Lyvers in Rome, Ky. Her education began at St. Joseph School in Bowling Green where she was taught by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, then she later attended the public school at Russellville. Pauline’s high school years…

Sister Mary John Purdy

Date of Birth: November 15, 1893
Date of Death: July 30, 1988
Age at Death: 94 years
Marker Location: Row E No. 45

Frances Helena was born November 15, 1893, the daughter of John and Mary Purdy of Curdsville, Ky. She attended school at the Blandford School until 1906 and another small school for a few years. For one year she attended Mount Saint Joseph Academy but had to return home to help her mother and received the…

Sister Caroline Wathen

Date of Birth: January 19, 1898
Date of Death: June 15, 1988
Age at Death: 90 years
Marker Location: Row F No. 43

Born Jan. 19, 1898, in Anthoston, Ky., Lillian was the daughter of John and Caroline Manning Wathen. She had eight sisters and two brothers. Lillian was 5 years old when she began her formal education at the Wathen School, a one‑room school with all eight grades and one teacher. She came to Mount Saint Joseph…

Sister Jean Teresa Taylor

Date of Birth: August 26, 1911
Date of Death: March 26, 1988
Age at Death: 76 years
Marker Location: Row G No. 44

Beatrice Collard and James Taylor of Peonia, Ky., were happy to welcome Virginia, the first of their 12 children, on Aug. 26, 1911. Her education began in the public school of Oklahoma, a small school near Peonia. She spent the first year of high school at Peonia and completed the last three years at Mount…

Sister Michaeline Brumlow

Date of Birth: May 22, 1907
Date of Death: February 11, 1988
Age at Death: 80 years
Marker Location: Row H No. 35

Born May 22, 1907, in Fancy Farm, Ky., Julia Mary was a cheerful, loving child in a family of nine. She learned to practice her faith from the example of her parents, Edward and Sarah Vessels Brumlow. Her early school days were spent at St. Jerome School in Fancy Farm. She came to Mount Saint…

Sister Isadore Brown

Date of Birth: March 22, 1911
Date of Death: October 2, 1987
Age at Death: 76 years
Marker Location: Row D No. 44

The daughter of Julian and Elizabeth Mattingly Brown, Josephine was born March 22, 1911, in Cloverport, Ky. Her formal education began at St. Rose School in Cloverport, taught by the Ursuline Sisters. Josephine attended Mount Saint Joseph Academy for high school. On September 8, 1930, she entered the novitiate. Following a six-month postulancy, she received…

Sister Mary Charlotte Younker

Date of Birth: July 24, 1896
Date of Death: September 29, 1987
Age at Death: 91 years
Marker Location: Row E No. 44

Born On July 24, 1896, in St. John, Ky., Mary Esther was the daughter of John and Josephine Englert Younker, one of nine children. She entered the novitiate at Mount Saint Joseph when she was 28 years old. On August 15, 1925, following a nine-month postulancy, Mary Esther received the Ursuline habit and the name…