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 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 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 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 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 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 Robert Buckler

Date of Birth: September 20, 1909
Date of Death: November 1, 1988
Age at Death: 79 years
Marker Location: Row H No. 36

The daughter of George and Mary Cleve Cambron Buckler, Frances Alice was born September 20, 1909, in St. Mary, Ky., one of nine children. She received her grade school education in the public school at Loretto. For her junior and senior years in high school she attended St. Charles School in St. Mary (Lebanon) staffed…

Sister Monica Aud II

Date of Birth: June 24, 1903
Date of Death: November 3, 1988
Age at Death: 85 years
Marker Location: Row G No. 45

Born June 24, 1903, in Knottsville, Ky., Mary Agnes was the daughter of William and Mary Matilda Payne Aud. She received her early education at a one-room school on Short Station Road — called Snowball School. At times her father paid a cousin to stay in their home and tutor the children. Mary Agnes also…

Sister Mary Gregory Cooper

Date of Birth: September 9, 1904
Date of Death: March 15, 1989
Age at Death: 84 years
Marker Location: Row A No. 7

Born Sept. 9, 1904, in Whitesville, Ky., Mary Helen was the daughter of Peter and Catherine Hoheimer Cooper. The family moved from Whitesville to Owensboro before Helen was school age. She began her formal education at St. Frances Academy under the direction of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth. Later she transferred to St. Joseph…

Sister Ursula Marie O’Bryan

Date of Birth: July 22, 1905
Date of Death: March 28, 1989
Age at Death: 83 years
Marker Location: Row A No. 9

The daughter of Joseph and Regina Mattingly O’Bryan, Mary Ursula was born July 22, 1905. She began life in the log cabin on her grandfather’s farm in West Louisville, Ky. She attended the West Louisville public school, and when ready for the eighth grade, became a student at Mount Saint Joseph Academy. After graduation in…