Forney, Isabell, 1869-1956
Person
Dates
- Usage: 1894 - 1956
Parallel Names
- Forney, Elisabeth, 1869-1894
Occupations
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Benedictine nuns
- Note: Entered Novitiate: 1894-08-28, First Vows: 1895-08-29, Perpetual Vows: 1898-08-29
Places
- Pittsburgh -- Pennsylvania (Place of Birth) -- Date: 1869-09-12
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Chicago -- Illinois
(Place of Death)
-- Date:
1956-01-07
- Note: Buried in All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Sister Isabell Forney, OSB papers
Collection
Identifier: OSBCHI-D-FORNISAB
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 2 folders of biographical information. The first folder contains a personal data sheet and a photocopied Baptismal record. The second folder includes short community biographies and obituaries, accounts of her illness and death in letters written to the community, news articles announcing her death, prayer cards, a third-class linen relic (a piece of linen touched to a relic of St. Jude), photographs, and archival research correspondence.
Dates:
c. 1890-1980
Found in:
Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives