Sister Rosita Willett

Date of Birth: November 5, 1918
Date of Death: February 21, 2007
Age at Death: 88 years
Marker Location: Row A No. 35

Rose Marie was born to Joseph Edward and Jane Isabel Perdue Willett, their second child, on November 5, 1918, at Waverly, Ky. Her older brother, Edward, and six other siblings: Dorothy Jane, Anna Ursula, Mary Kathleen, Joseph Vernon, Theresa Bernadette and Doris Hiltrude made up the happy family of Joseph and Jane Willett. Rose Marie…

Sister Ethelreda Hayden

Date of Birth: September 12, 1915
Date of Death: February 25, 2007
Age at Death: 91 years
Marker Location: Row A No. 21

Marie Ernestine Hayden was born September 12, 1915, the second child of Felix and Ethel Buckman Hayden of Fancy Farm, Ky. An older brother Bill, (William Felix) and five other siblings, Mary Catherine, Frances Virginia, Charles Louis, Frances Eula and Mary Elizabeth completed the Felix and Ethel Hayden family. Ernestine was 3 years old when…

Sister Agnes Catherine Williams

Date of Birth: January 29, 1905
Date of Death: August 9, 2007
Age at Death: 102 years
Marker Location: Row K No. 42

Mary Agnes, the seventh child of William Asa and Catherine Stengell Williams, was born on January 29, 1905 at their home in Owensboro, Ky. She had three brothers and two sisters older than she and a younger brother. Soon after birth Mary Agnes developed a severe eye infection which robbed her of sight in the…

Sister Mary David Thomas

Date of Birth: June 20, 1910
Date of Death: October 3, 2007
Age at Death: 97 years
Marker Location: Row A No. 36

Josephine Elizabeth, one of three children, was born on June 20, 1910, in St. Louis, Mo., to William Thomas and Susan Elizabeth Wathen Thomas. She was baptized at St. Thomas of Aquinas Church, St. Louis, on July 10. The family moved to Kentucky in 1913, and the father, along with a brother-in-law, bought a farm…

Sister Eileen Mullen

Date of Birth: May 24, 1912
Date of Death: March 12, 2008
Age at Death: 95 years
Marker Location: Row A No. 24

Eileen Veronica Rose Mullen was born on May 24, 1912, on the family farm near the Canadian border, between Colgan and Fortuna, North Dakota. The town in which Eileen was born was named after her maternal grandfather Mac Colgan. She was the second child of the homesteading pioneers Michael Joseph Mullen and Edith Eileen Colgan…

Sister Charlesine Bowling

Date of Birth: June 8, 1911
Date of Death: April 3, 2008
Age at Death: 96 years
Marker Location: Row K No. 39

Mary Isabelle Bowling was born on June 8, 1911, in Athertonville, Larue County, Kentucky. She was the last of eight children of Joseph Walker and Mary Alexine McGee Bowling, who were descendants from the original pioneer settlers who came in 1785 to Nelson County, Kentucky. Charles Patrick was the oldest, followed by Martina, Bill, Nancy,…

Sister Joseph Adrian Russell

Date of Birth: January 16, 1914
Date of Death: August 3, 2008
Age at Death: 94 years
Marker Location: Row C No. 44

Frank William and Mary Josephine Blandford Russell of Louisville welcomed their ninth child, Ann Beatrice, on January 16, 1914. The family was completed later with the birth of two more children, a total of seven girls and four boys. The family belonged to St. Brigid Church. The children were baptized, received First Holy Communion and…

Sister Elizabeth Ann Ray

Date of Birth: August 7, 1910
Date of Death: November 16, 2008
Age at Death: 98 years
Marker Location: Row A No. 37

On August 7, 1910, Joseph Lawrence and Mary Elizabeth Mills Ray of Rhodelia, Kentucky, welcomed the birth of their sixth child. She was baptized Edith Elizabeth on September 11, 1910 by Father J.P. Raoux, pastor of St. Theresa Church, Rhodelia. As the years passed, this family welcomed the birth of six additional children: five boys…

Sister Walter Louise Lush

Date of Birth: December 7, 1914
Date of Death: December 23, 2008
Age at Death: 94 years
Marker Location: Row J, No. 43

Lura Mae Lush was born December 7, 1914, in Wax (Grayson County) Ky., the seventh child of 13 born to Leo and Ida Johnson. Her brothers included Joseph Arnold, Clevie, Isadore, John Edwin and Joyce; her sisters were Daisy, Evangeline, Generose, Carrie, Mary Richard, Audrey and Mildred. She had a happy and carefree childhood, commenting…

Sister Rose Emma Monaghan

Date of Birth: April 14, 1915
Date of Death: December 27, 2008
Age at Death: 93 years
Marker Location: Row K No. 48

Rose Emma’s earthly journey began on April 14, 1915, at home in Percival, Iowa, as the sixth child of Thomas and Rose Emma Monaghan’s 11 children: seven sons Ed, Frank, Tom, Charles, Jerry, William (killed in WWII) and Leo; and, four daughters, Catherine, Mary, Alyce and Rose Emma, who was born with a congenital dislocated…