Sister Isabell Forney, OSB papers
Scope and Contents
This collection contains biographical information. It includes a personal data sheet, a photocopied Baptismal record, obituaries, news clippings, prayer cards, a third-class linen relic (a piece of linen touched to a relic of Saint Jude), photographs, and archival research correspondence.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1894-1997
Conditions Governing Access
The material in this collection is unrestricted. It is open for research.
Biographical / Historical
Sister Isabell Forney, OSB was born Elisabeth to Alsatian parents in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on September 12th, 1869. She entered the community on April 13th, 1894, and made her final profession on August 29th, 1898.
Sister taught first and second grade girls at SS Benedict and Scholastica Academy on Orleans Street and at the Academy of Saint Scholastica on Ridge Boulevard. In the final 15 years of her teaching career, she served as a fifth grade teacher at Saint George Parish School in Chicago. As a teacher she was widely beloved, and was remebered for her joy in telling stories about the lives of the saints to her students. At the monastery, Sister served as portress.
She died at the age of 86 on January 7th, 1956, and is buried in All Saints Cemetery.
Extent
.1 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Subject
- Forney, Isabell, 1869-1956 (Person)
- Title
- A Guide to Sister Isabell Forney, OSB papers
- Author
- Clara Finkelstein
- Date
- 2025-10-07
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives Repository
Archives
Benedictine Sisters of Chicago
7430 N. Ridge Blvd.
Chicago Illinois 60645 United States
(773) 764-2413 ext. 203
archives@osbchicago.org