Sister Mary Regina Boone

Date of Birth: January 31, 1918
Date of Death: April 29, 2010
Age at Death: 92 years
Marker Location: Row B No. 56

Mary Elizabeth, the fifth child of William Joseph and Mary Josephine Greenwell Boone of New Haven, Ky., was born January 31, 1918, in a deadly cold winter. Despite the sub zero temperature, she was taken by buggy two days later to St. Catherine Church for baptism. Even the horse received lacerations on its legs from…

Sister Vickie Lynn Cravens

Date of Birth: September 12, 1950
Date of Death: August 5, 2010
Age at Death: 59 years
Marker Location: Row A No. 39

Vickie Lynn Cravens, born September 12, 1950, in Laclede County, Mo., was the first child born to Hazel Loree Massey and Victor Lavern Cravens. Growing up for the first six years, Vickie’s journey took its first curve with the arrival of a second child, her cherished sister Elizabeth, known as Beth. Due to her mother’s…

Sister Rosaria Ray

Date of Birth: January 4, 1922
Date of Death: August 21, 2010
Age at Death: 88 years
Marker Location: Row D No. 57

Sister Rosaria, Agnes Kathryn, was born Jan. 4, 1922, the first child to William Jennings and Bessie Pike Ray, in Sirocco, Ky. She was baptized by Reverend Joseph Gettelfinger at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Payneville, Ky. Seven siblings (including a set of twin) — four sisters and three brothers — would eventually become Kathryn’s family.…

Sister Mary Jovita Milner

Date of Birth: January 15, 1921
Date of Death: August 24, 2010
Age at Death: 89 years
Marker Location: Row J No. 56

Mary Teresa was born in Plattsville, Colo., on Jan. 15, 1921, the second child of James and Mary Collard Milner. Teresa joined an older sister, Rita, and was followed by brothers James, Stanley and her baby sister, Marcella Ann. The Milner family returned to Kentucky where Teresa completed elementary school in Clarkson, and the first…

Sister Ann Victoria Wasylina

Date of Birth: June 11, 1924
Date of Death: October 12, 2010
Age at Death: 86 years
Marker Location: Row A No. 41

Irena, born June 6, 1924, was the only daughter of blacksmith Basil Wasylina and his wife, Anna, residents of Duliby, Stryj, in Polish Ukraine. Irena had two brothers, Peter, also a blacksmith, and Nicholas, a cobbler. She was baptized and confirmed in the Byzantine Rite at St. Basil Church and grew up in a faith-filled…

Sister Ann Marie Scherman

Date of Birth: October 14, 1941
Date of Death: November 8, 2010
Age at Death: 69 years
Marker Location: Row A No. 42

It seems that Mary Ann was born into the world of the Ursuline Sisters. Her family always lived in Paola, Kan., and a few days after her birth her parents, Anna Belle and Ernest, brought little Mary Ann to the Ursuline convent where she was held in the arms of Sister Jerome, founder of the…

Sister Agnes Cecilia Speak

Date of Birth: October 29, 1910
Date of Death: December 15, 2010
Age at Death: 100 years
Marker Location: Row I No. 49

Sister Agnes Cecilia Speak began a journey of 100 years on October 29, 1910, as Anne Cecilia, the third daughter of Joseph Lawrence and Apollonia Rhodes Speak of Irvington, Kentucky. Ultimately there would be five children growing up in the Speak family: Mary Joseph (our Sister Joseph Lawrence), Marie, Anne Cecilia (Sister Agnes Cecilia), Agnes…

Sister Blanche Rita Bickett

Date of Birth: March 20, 1912
Date of Death: January 10, 2011
Age at Death: 98 years
Marker Location: Row C No. 57

Sister Blanche Rita was born in Uniontown, Kentucky, on March 20 1912, as Mary Blanche, the tenth child born to James Henry and Mary Alma Bickett. Within four years, numbers eleven and twelve completed the roster for the Bickett family with four brothers: Lewis, Paul, Lucian and Ben; and seven sisters: Emma, Mary Josephine, Mary…

Sister Mary Dolorita Robinson

Date of Birth: January 13, 1923
Date of Death: March 23, 2011
Age at Death: 88 years
Marker Location: Row H No. 48

Mary Dolores (Dola) was born January 13, 1923, in the small rural community of Little Saint Joseph in Marion County, Ky., the eighth of nine children to William Spalding and Lallie Marie Thomas Robinson. At age 2, her mother died. Shortly afterward the family moved to St. Mary, Ky. In 1929, her father married a kind…

Sister Helen Hermreck

Date of Birth: November 24, 1923
Date of Death: March 27, 2011
Age at Death: 87 years
Marker Location: Row G No. 57

Helen Margaret Hermreck: musician, teacher, novice mistress, devoted family member, gardener, RCIA director, storyteller, nature-lover, champion of special education, prayer leader, flower arranger extraordinaire. Helen was born Nov. 24, 1923, in Scipio, Kansas, and joined the Ursulines of Paola when she was 15 years old. Shortly after entering the convent her family came to tell…