Sister Marie Therese Brumlow

Date of Birth: November 15, 1902
Date of Death: December 23, 1986
Age at Death: 84 years
Marker Location: Row E No. 43

Zita, one of nine children, was born Nov. 15, 1902, the daughter of Edward and Sarah Vessels Brumlow of Fancy Farm, Ky. She completed elementary school at St. Jerome School in Fancy Farm. She came to Mount Saint Joseph Academy in 1920 and entered the novitiate in November 1924, her senior year. Zita received the…

Sister Marie Montgomery

Date of Birth: January 27, 1923
Date of Death: August 18, 2023
Age at Death: 100 years
Marker Location: Row K No. 46

Mary Hilary Montgomery was born on January 27, 1923, , to the family of Hilary and Emma May Montgomery in St. Lawrence, Ky. She was the fourth in a family of seven children. Her siblings included Catherine, Virginia, Vincent, Therese, Agnes (who would become Sister Dorothea, RSM) and John. Mary Hilary was baptized on March…

Sister Marguerite Younker

Date of Birth: November 12, 1900
Date of Death: April 4, 1981
Age at Death: 80 years
Marker Location: Row E No. 32

Mary Josephine, the daughter of Henry and Rosa Poat Younker, was born November 12, 1900, in St. John, Ky. Her father died when she was a year old and before the birth of her sister, Margaret. When Father Charles Haeseley, her mother’s uncle, became pastor at St. Jerome in Fancy Farm, Ky., he invited Rosa…

Sister Margaret Ann Wathen

Date of Birth: November 5, 1909
Date of Death: May 1, 1996
Age at Death: 86 years
Marker Location: Row A No. 32

Elizabeth Beatrice Wathen was born to Linus and Beatrice Gribbon Wathen in Calvary, Ky., on Nov. 5, 1909. She was one of five children, two of whom died in infancy. The mother died when Elizabeth was 9years old, leaving her grief-stricken, as was her father who was left with three small children. Mr. Wathen married…

Sister Margaret Joseph Aull

Date of Birth: March 2, 1922
Date of Death: December 7, 2009
Age at Death: 87 years
Marker Location: Row L No. 39

Margaret Anna was born March 2, 1922, the third child in a family of 15 to Michael Xavier and Mary Pauline Mattingly Aull of Knottsville, Ky.: Theresa Elizabeth, Thomasina, Mary Naomi (Sister Naomi OSU), Mildred (Sister Marie Michael CP). William Guy, Robert Eugene, Joyce Marie, James Leo, Beverly, Joseph Allen, Joseph Harry, and Anne Carolyn. Two children…

Sister Margaret Louise Yates

Date of Birth: June 10, 1910
Date of Death: May 28, 1993
Age at Death: 82 years
Marker Location: Row E No. 49

Born June 10, 1910, to John and Coletta Bowling Yates in Waverly, Ky., Lillian was one of the six Yates children. They were descended from the Maryland settlement on Pottinger Creek. Lillian’s formal education began at Phipps Public School. From second grade through grade 12, she attended St. Peter School in Waverly. In high school,…

Sister Margaret Mary Barrow

Date of Birth: March 17, 1892
Date of Death: November 29, 1972
Age at Death: 80 years
Marker Location: Row H No. 28

Carlene Agatha was born March 17, 1892, the oldest of nine children of Elias and Mary Helen Cosby Barrow of Morganfield, Ky. Later the family moved to St. Joseph and within several more years, they moved to a farm three miles from Owensboro. Carlene received most of her elementary education at the public school on Ford…

Sister Margaret Mary Rodman

Date of Birth: October 12, 1876
Date of Death: August 9, 1901
Age at Death: 24 years
Marker Location: Row B No. 23

Gertrude was born Oct. 12, 1876, the daughter of Richard and Alice Blincoe Rodman of St. Joseph, Ky. She was raised within sight of St. Alphonsus Church and within hearing of the convent bells of Mount Saint Joseph. When she was almost 3 years of age, Gertrude and her mother were present for the funeral…

Sister Margaret Sipes

Date of Birth: September 7, 1907
Date of Death: August 8, 1994
Age at Death: 86 years
Marker Location: Row G No. 49

Martha Delphine — “Mattie” — was born Sept. 7, 1907, the third child of 13, six boys and seven girls. Her parents were Chester Taylor and Leora (Barnes) Sipes of Flaherty, Ky. Living in close daily contact with a group this size was an education in itself. Martha’s first six years of formal education were…

Sister Margaret Marie Greenwell

Date of Birth: August 31, 1938
Date of Death: April 7, 2026
Age at Death: 87 years
Marker Location: Row G No. 61

Just before noon, on August 31, 1938, Mary Helen Greenwell joined her sister, Rita Germaine, her dad, Paul Hogarty, and her mama, Margaret Marie, as the second child in the young Greenwell family in New Haven, Ky. Eager to initiate their second daughter in their faith, tiny Mary Helen was baptized just four days later,…