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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

  • Creation: c. 1890-1980

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 St. 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.

She died at the age of 86 on January 7th, 1956, and is buried in All Saints Cemetery.

Extent

.1 Linear Feet (1 hanging file)

Language of Materials

English

Metadata Rights Declarations

  • License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
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

Contact:
Archives
Benedictine Sisters of Chicago
7430 N. Ridge Blvd.
Chicago Illinois 60645 United States
(773) 764-2413 ext. 203