Sister Mary Clement Greenwell

Date of Birth: April 22, 1908
Date of Death: September 23, 2009
Age at Death: 101 years
Marker Location: Row E No. 57

Mary Magdalen Greenwell was born April 22, 1908, in Curdsville, Ky., to Matthew Greenwell and Elizabeth Sauer Byrne Greenwell. Elizabeth Sauer had four children —Leo, Michael, Wallace and Anna Marie— from her first marriage to Augusta Byrne. One year after her husband’s death, Elizabeth married Matthew Greenwell. Mary Magdalen was the first of the seven…

Sister Mary DeChantal Whelan

Date of Birth: November 10, 1914
Date of Death: September 3, 2009
Age at Death: 94 years
Marker Location: Row F No. 55

DeChantal Whelan came into this life November 10, 1914, on a farm near Curdsville, Ky., the daughter of Joseph Leslie and Florence Eugenia Neal Whelan. She was the sister of Ruth and five brothers: Francis, Robert, Tom, Aloysius (called Tim) and Jim. Her mother named the baby DeChantal. DeChantal’s father, who didn’t like it, usually…

Sister Theresa Marie Wilkerson

Date of Birth: May 16, 1920
Date of Death: July 27, 2009
Age at Death: 89 years
Marker Location: Row G No. 56

Mary Louise, the first child and only daughter of James Wallace and Earmena Catherine Hay Wilkerson, was born May 16, 1920, in Owensboro, Ky. Her father was a telegraph operator and her mother stayed at home to raise her daughter and the five brothers that came along later —Thomas Carl, James Wallace, Gerald Martin, Robert…

Sister Mary Cordelia Spalding

Date of Birth: October 15, 1918
Date of Death: April 5, 2009
Age at Death: 90 years
Marker Location: Row I No. 48

Mary Martha, born October 15, 1918, on a farm near Beech Fork River in Nelson County, Ky., was the oldest child of Archibald Aloysius and Mary Edna Bowling Spalding. Mary Martha had six siblings — two brothers, Charles Sylvester and Joseph Leo; and four sisters, Emily Rose, Lucy Regina, Elizabeth Ann and Margaret LaVerne. Because…

Sister Dorothy Marie Willett

Date of Birth: October 8, 1921
Date of Death: February 4, 2009
Age at Death: 87 years
Marker Location: Row C No. 55

Anna Ursula Willett was born on October 8, 1921, in Waverly Ky., the fourth child of James Edward and Jane Isabel Perdue Willett. The family grew to eight, including brothers Thomas Edward and Joseph Vernon and sisters Theresa Bernadette, Dorothy Jane, Doris Hiltrude, Mary Kathleen and Rose Marie (Sister Rosita, OSU). When Anna Ursula was three…

Sister Emily Zent

Date of Birth: July 25, 1911
Date of Death: December 30, 2008
Age at Death: 97 years
Marker Location: Row A No. 23

Jacob P. Zent was born in Spier Russia, February 16, 1887. His wife, Rose Kupper, was born in Sultz, Russia, September 13, 1889. They migrated to Mandan, N.D., where their first child, Emily was born July 26, 1911. The family increased to eight by the birth of two more girls, Isabel and Tillie and five…

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…

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 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 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…