Sister Walburga Junk, OSB papers
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a personal data sheet and community obituaries.
Dates
- Creation: c. 1877
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is unrestricted. All materials are open for research.
Biographical / Historical
Sister Walburga Junk, OSB was born Elisabeth on November 26th, 1855 in Chicago, Illinois to immigrant parents from St. Wendel, Prussia (now Germany). She was the natural younger sister of Sister Scholastica Junk, OSB. Sister joined the community on August 14th, 1873 and was invested on May 28th, 1874. She made her first temporary profession on September 19th, 1875.
Sister served as a choir sister, teaching at Saint Scholastica Academy and Saint Joseph School Chicago.
Sister died on August 24th, 1877, at the age of 22 and before her final profession. She is buried in Boniface Cemetery.
Variations of Sister's surname include Yung, Jung, Young, and Yunk.
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.
Subject
- Junk, Walburga, 1855-1877 (Person)
- Title
- A Guide to Sister Walburga Junk, OSB papers
- Author
- Clara Finkelstein
- Date
- 2025-11-10
- 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