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Cooper, Edna, 1904-1985

 Person

Dates

  • Usage: 1969 - 1985

Parallel Names

  • Cooper, Claudia, 1928-1969
  • Cooper, Edna Amelia, 1904-1928

Occupations

  • Benedictine nuns -- Date: 1928 - 1985
    • Note: Entered Novitiate: 1928-07-11, First Vows: 1929-08-16, Perpetual Vows: 1932-08-16

Places

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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Brookside, Colo., 1929 - 1991

 Sub-Series — Box OSBCHI-C-100-1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents Sister Vivian Ivantic, OSB compiled a list of Sisters who taught weekday, Sunday, and summer classes at St. Anthony Church. She included pages on the parish history taken from the 60th anniversary book of St. Michael Church, Cañon City, Colorado. There is a brief note from Sister Eleanore Hillenbrand, OSB regarding her experience, a data sheet prepared for the 1965 Visitation of St. Scholastica Monastery, part of an Our Community article by Sister Aloysia Ripperger, OSB referencing problems...
Dates: 1929 - 1991

Chandler, Colo., 1991

 Sub-Series — Box OSBCHI-C-100-1, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents

This series details the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago's brief presence in Chandler, Colorado. Four Sisters ran a vaction school in the small coal town during the summer of 1940, which served children in Chandler, along with Williamsburg, Colorado, and Coal Creek, Colorado. Also included is an Archives Newsletter written following a 1991 archive trip Sr. Vivian Ivantic, OSB, and Sr. Eleanore Hillenbrand, OSB, took to Colorado.

Dates: 1991

Coal Creek, Colo., 1933 - 1955

 Sub-Series — Box OSBCHI-C-100-1, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents

This sub-series is comprised of a couple papers listing the Sisters who ran summer schools of religion in Coal Creek, Colorado, along with the years they worked. The 28 students who attended the 1933 vacation school taught by Sr. Leona Schmitt, OSB, appear in two photographs. Also included is "The Gleanor," an article from an unnamed publication on the coal mines surrounding Cañon City, Colorado, which includes a description of Coal Creek prior to a 1907 fire that wrecked the town.

Dates: 1933 - 1955

Pueblo, Colo., 1959

 Sub-Series — Box OSBCHI-C-100-2, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

This sub-series is mostly comprised of papers listing Sisters who taught vacation schools in Pueblo, Colorado. The only other material included is a 1959 news clipping mentioning Sr. Walburg Matern, OSB.

Dates: 1959

Rocky Ford, Colo., 1937 - 1942

 Sub-Series — Box OSBCHI-C-100-2, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

This sub-series contains an archives note listing the Sisters who taught vacation schools in Rocky Ford, Colorado, along with a couple news clippings of events relating to the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago's presence in the town. Also included is a photograph of several pupils from one summer, although the year is unknown, and it appears they do not comprise the whole class, as there are more children cut off on the right left side of the frame.

Dates: 1937 - 1942

Sister Edna Cooper, OSB papers

 Collection — Folder OSBCHI-D-COOPEDNA-0
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-COOPEDNA
Scope and Contents

This collection includes a personal data sheet, next of kin list, ministry lists, transcripts, obituaries, prayer cards, photographs, correspondence, and materials on Colorado history.

Dates: 1927-1990

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Archival Object 5
Collection 1
 
Subject
Coal Creek -- Colorado 2
White supremacy movements -- United States 2
Brookside -- Colorado 1
Canon City -- Colorado 1
Chandler -- Colorado 1