Mary Emma was born March 28, 1902, the daughter of Lillard and Eliza Coomes Fulkerson of Rome, Ky. Her early education began in the public schools of Davies County. She later attended St. Elizabeth School in Curdsville, staffed by the Ursuline Sisters. When 20 years of age, Mary Emma entered the novitiate of Mount Saint…
Mount Saint Joseph Necrologies
The Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph Necrology contains biographical information for Sisters buried at Mount Saint Joseph Cemetery.
Many entries include a Marker Location (for example, “Row D No. 55”), which corresponds to a location on the cemetery map.
Sister Johanna Froeba
Cunigunda was the daughter of Johann and Cunigunda Fröba (Froeba). She was born May 30, 1829, in Buchbach, Ludwigstadt, Ober-Franken, Germany. In the early 1850s, she came from Buchbach to Louisville, Ky., to live with her brothers on Madison Street. Their home was across the street from the home of Henry and Katrina Bloemer, the…
Sister Michael Marie Friedman
Madonna Marie Friedman was born on October 1, 1946, in Glennonville, Mo. Her parents were Michael Friedman and Johanna Vanderfeltz Friedman. She was the youngest of four children. Her siblings were Vincent, Patricia and Richard. Madonna was baptized on October 2, 1946, the day after she was born, at St. Teresa Church in Glennonville. She…
Sister Patricia Ann Frey
Mary Pauline was born August 7, 1909, the seventh child born to John and Susan Wagner Frey of Owensboro, Ky. This Catholic German family helped build and support St. Joseph Church. Pauline began her formal education at St. Hubertus Academy (later renamed St. Joseph School) in September 1915. Her first teachers were the Ursulines of…
Sister Mary Cabrini Foushee
Mary Rosaline Foushee was born on Sept. 22, 1930, the third child of William Albert and Virginia Frances Mills Foushee at Ekron, Ky. She was the oldest girl in the family with six sisters and three brothers — Charles Albert, Bernard Alexander, James Aloysius, Rita Evelyn, Ann, Jeanette, Dorothy Jean, Margaret Laverne, Therese Frances and…
Sister Rose Mary Ford
Born April 22, 1905, to William and Elizabeth Boone Ford in New Haven, Ky., Louise was the youngest in her family. Her parents trained their children according to the instructions of their venerable pastor, Father William Hogarty. When Louise was four years old, her father died following an accident at work. She attended St. Catherine…
Sister Mary Clara Floyd
On November 28, 1898, Mary Ellen and her twin sister, Emma, were two of the 12 children born to Samuel Thomas and Elizabeth Ann Peak Floyd of Rome, Ky. Mary Ellen began her formal education at St. Martin School, staffed by the Ursulines of the Immaculate Conception, Louisville. Upon completion of grade eight, she came…
Sister Theophane Floyd
The daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Peak Floyd of Rome, Ky., Anna Belle was born April 6, 1896, the seventh child in a family of 12 children. She attended St. Martin School in Rome where she excelled in reading and grammar. Anna Belle felt the call to religious life and entered the novitiate at Mount…
Sister Robert Angela Fleischmann
Lorena Philomena, the fourth child of Robert Joseph and Mary Ann Fischer Fleischmann, was born on May 28, 1909, in Poseyville, Ind. Her journey of faith began three days later with her baptism at St. Francis de Sales Church, Poseyville. Her father died of tuberculosis when she was only one year old. Her mother remarried…
Sister Anita Flaugher
Eva Warren was born August 27, 1911, into the family of Gwynn Marvin and Eva Elizabeth Wathen Flaugher of Fairfield, Ky. She had four brothers: Gwynn Marvin, Edwin Drury, Charles. and Wilfred Wathen; three sisters: Alice Carpenter, Evelyn Mae and Mary Freda. The Flaugher family were members of St. Michael parish and attended the parish…