Sister M. Cyprian Campbell, IHM

Sister M. Cyprian Campbell, IHM, of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary died on Monday, April 13, 1914 at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Scranton, PA.

She was born on August 10, 1855 in Carbondale, PA and given the name Mary. She was the daughter of the late Thomas and Mary Mitchell Campbell. Two of the five Campbell children entered the IHM Congregation. She entered the IHM Congregation on May 1, 1878, received the religious habit on December 31, 1879, and made profession of her vows on November 15, 1881.

Sister Cyprian served as a teacher at the following schools: St. John the Evangelist School in Pittston, PA; Holy Rosary School in Scranton, PA; St. John School in Susquehanna, PA; St. Cecilia Academy in Scranton, PA; St. Patrick School in Scranton, PA; St. Rose School in Carbondale, PA; St. Joseph School in Lock Haven, PA; and St. John the Evangelist in Bellefonte, PA.

Sister also served in child care for resident children at St. Joseph’s Foundling Home in Scranton, PA.

She was preceded in death by two brothers, John and Patrick, and two sisters, Bridget and Ellen.

She is survived by a brother, Thomas of Dunmore, PA; two sisters, Elizabeth Campbell Boylan of Carbondale, PA, and Sister M. Hildegarde, IHM; nieces and nephews.

The funeral will be Wednesday, April 15 at 9:30 a.m. in the chapel at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary, followed by interment in the Marywood College Cemetery, on the grounds of Marywood College in Scranton.

Archival Remembrance:

Feeling herself called to the religious life, Miss Campbell entered the novitiate of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary at St. Rose’s, Carbondale, May 1, 1879. On December 31, the same year she received the habit of religion from the late Rt. Rev. William O’Hara, D.D., and two years later made her profession November 15, 1811. Sister Cyprian during her long religious life has labored faithfully and zealously in the cause of education. Many convents in the dioceses of Scranton and Harrisburg have been the scene of her labors. Sister Cyprian was a model religous ever faithful to the rules of her order – zealous in the work of the schools, kind and charitable to her sisters. She was greatly beloved and will be sincerely mourned.