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 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 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 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 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 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 Mildred Barr

Date of Birth: July 4, 1921
Date of Death: December 12, 2006
Age at Death: 85 years
Marker Location: Row J No. 55

Mildred, born July 4, 1921, was the daughter of William Garret and Ruth Cecilia Payne Ban — who cared for their 15 children (eight boys and seven girls) with loving care and guidance in a faith-filled Catholic home in Livermore, Ky. Mildred lived with her grandparents at Browns Valley to enter the first grade at…

Sister Mary Carolita Young

Date of Birth: April 10, 1913
Date of Death: November 29, 2006
Age at Death: 93 years
Marker Location: Row K No. 51

A daughter was born to Lorenzo Carroll Young and his second wife, Loretta Higdon, on April 10, 1913, in their home near St. Mary, Kentucky. She was named Mary Estelle after her father’s first wife, Mary Estelle Craycroft. Marie, her father’s daughter by his first wife, came to live with the family when Mary Estelle…

Sister Martha Ann Cargile

Date of Birth: January 26, 1915
Date of Death: October 17, 2006
Age at Death: 91 years
Marker Location: Row K No. 46

Martha Harris was born January 26, 1915, one of three children born to Harris Stites and Mary Martha Higginson Cargile in Dixon, Ky. She was baptized at St. Ann Church, Morganfield, on March 12, 1915, and received the sacrament of Confirmation on March 18,1934, in the chapel of Mount Saint Joseph. Beginning in 1920, Martha…

Sister Mary Beatrice Donahue

Date of Birth: February 11, 1910
Date of Death: October 15, 2006
Age at Death: 96 years
Marker Location: Row K No. 43

Mary Fidelma was born on Feb. 11, 1910, to John Webb and Frances Beatrice Clark Donahue, of Holy Cross, Ky., the fifth in a family of 10 children. In her biography, Fidelma writes about the beauties of her home life: morning and evening prayer, her mother reading stories and her father teaching them nursery rhymes…