Sister M. Joan Scott, IHM

Sister M. Joan Scott, IHM, of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary died on Wednesday, December 1, 1920, at St. Cecilia’s Convent in Exeter, PA.

She was born on May 3, 1862, in Scranton, PA, and given the name Mary A. She was the daughter of the late John B. and Mary Slavin Scott. Before entering the community, Mary was a public school teacher in Scranton. She entered the IHM Congregation on July 2, 1903, received the religious habit on December 31, 1903, and made profession of her vows on December 28, 1905.

Sister Joan served as a teacher at St. Cecilia Academy in Exeter, PA.

There are no survivors.

The funeral will be will be Friday, December 3, at St. Cecilia’s Church, Exeter. Interment will be at the Marywood College Cemetery, on the grounds of Marywood College in Scranton, PA.

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“Death came swiftly to Sister M. Joan Scott, who died December 1, 1920, after an illness of only a few hours’ duration. It was the kind of death this holy soul had prayed for. Sister Joan’s religious life had been spent at Saint Cecilia’s, Wyoming. She was an ideal primary teacher and had securely set the feet of hundreds of little ones in the way of justice.”

Excerpted from The Sisters of the I.H.M.: The Story of The Founding of The Congregation of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and Their Work In The Scranton Diocese by Sister M. Immaculata Gillespie, IHM, P.J. Kenedy & Sons, NY, 1921, p. 488