Schermerhorn, Mary Frances, 1930-2021

Person

Staff Only

Dates

Usage: 1930 - 1950
Usage: 1968 - 2021

Parallel Names

Schermerhorn, Ellen Marie, 1950-1968

Occupations

Benedictine nuns -- Date: 1950 - 2021
- Note: Entered Novitiate: 1950-03-19, First Vows: 1051-03-26, Perpetual Vows: 1954-06-25

Places

Chicago -- Illinois (Place of Birth) -- Date: 1930-04-11
Evanston -- Illinois (Place of Death) -- Date: 2021-07-06
- Note: Buried in All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois.

Metadata Rights Declarations

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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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

Found in: Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives / Religious Education Schools collection / Religious Education Schools papers / Colorado Schools

Research trip to Latrobe, St. Marys, Erie, Pittsburgh, Wheeling, 1992-09-29 to 1992-10-12

Sub-Series — Box OSBCHI-A.41, Folder: 3

Identifier: OSBCHI-A-209.2

Scope and Contents

This sub-series includes the calendar, itinerary, postcards, and notes of an research trip that the archivist, Sister Vivian Ivantic, OSB made to Benedictine houses in the Eastern United States. Sister Eleanore Hillenbrand, OSB and Sister Mary Frances Schermerhorn accompanied her. They also visited Sister Karen Bland, OSB who was on the staff of Wheeling Jesuit College in Wheeling, West Virginia.

Dates: 1992-09-29 to 1992-10-12

Found in: Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives / Governance records / Related Houses / St. Joseph Monastery papers

Sister Mary Frances Schermerhorn, OSB papers

Collection

Identifier: OSBCHI-D-SCHEMARY

Scope and Contents This collection consists of 1 hanging file of biographical and personal data. It begins with an article from the Raven on the seven postulants entering the community in 1949. It contains Sister's obituary, funeral worship aid, and worship aids from jubilee celebrations, one a few days after her death. Other personal data is reported here, including lists of ministry assignments and next of kin. There is also material related to her service on the first parish council of St. Hilary Parish and...

Dates: 1949-2021

Found in: Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives