Sister Elaine Byrne

Date of Birth: May 28, 1946
Date of Death: January 20, 2012
Age at Death: 65 years
Marker Location: Row L No. 42

The journey of faith began for Elaine Isabel Byrne May 28, 1946, when she was born to John D. and Anna Marie Coomes Byrne of Curdsville, Ky. She joined Margie, John Jr., and J.L. Later there would be Mary Lou, Eddie and Tony. She was baptized at St. Elizabeth Church in Curdsville, June 4, 1946,…

Sister Frances McDonagh

Date of Birth: September 18, 1924
Date of Death: November 22, 2011
Age at Death: 87 years
Marker Location: Row K No. 2

Nora was born Sept. 18, 1924, to John and Bridget Collins McDonagh in the village of Trienbawn, County Galway, Ireland. She was the eighth child in a family of 11. Mary, the oldest, was born in 1910, then Julia, Michael, Delia, Sara, Maragret, Willie, Nora (Sister Frances), Eileen, Annie (Sister Mary Patrick), and John, who…

Sister Mary Jamesetta Knott

Date of Birth: March 23, 1925
Date of Death: October 22, 2011
Age at Death: 86 years
Marker Location: Row A No. 44

Mildred Louise, the second child of 11, was born March 23, 1925, at Wilhelmina, Mo., to James Eugene and Virgie Lee Horrell Knott. Her faith journey began with baptism at Sacred Heart Church, Wilhelmina, on March 29, 1925. In August 1930, her formal education began at Wilhelmina Public School and continued through eighth grade there.…

Sister Darlene Denton

Date of Birth: May 17, 1948
Date of Death: September 5, 2011
Age at Death: 63 years
Marker Location: Row F No. 56

Monday morning, May 17, 1948, just before 3:30 a.m. in the darkest reaches of the night, Judith Darlene brought to the loving family of Martin Edward and Elizabeth Helen Denton the gift of delight and laughter. She joined her older brother Tony. Within a week, Sunday, May 23rd, she began her faith journey in the…

Sister Marita Greenwell

Date of Birth: February 2, 1926
Date of Death: June 21, 2011
Age at Death: 85 years
Marker Location: Row A No. 43

Rena Catherine was born in Rhodelia, in Meade County, Ky., on February 2, 1926, the third and last child of Junius Marcellus and Sarah Eudora (Sallie) Vessels Greenwell. Rena Catherine joined her two sisters, Mary Anita and Dorothy Marie. She received the sacraments of Baptism on February 21, 1926, and Confirmation June 14, 1937 in…

Sister Mary Evelyn Duvall

Date of Birth: September 8, 1922
Date of Death: April 26, 2011
Age at Death: 88 years
Marker Location: Row L No. 41

On a late summer Friday, September 8, 1922, in rural Sunfish, Ky., Mary Evelyn was born to James Tilford (T.J.) and Mary Bennie Duvall, their third daughter and fourth child. She was baptized on Sunday, October 29 at St. John the Evangelist Church in Sunfish. Over the next decade the Duvall family would grow to include 14…

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…

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 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 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…