Sister M. Lawrence Doyle, IHM

Sister M. Lawrence Doyle, IHM, of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary died on Saturday, July 27, 1912, at St. John’s Convent in Susquehanna, PA.

Born on May 15, 1858 in St. Joseph, Pennsylvania, she was given the name Catherine. She had been a member of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary for over thirty years at the time of her death.

Sister Lawrence enjoyed her years of teaching children at Laurel Hill Academy in Susquehanna, PA.

She is survived by nieces, Mary Mooney, Julia (Mrs. Edward) Tierney and Anna Doyle, all of Susquehanna, PA.

The funeral will be Monday, July 29 at 10:00 a.m. at St. John’s Church in Susquehanna, PA, followed by interment at St. John’s Cemetery in Susquehanna.

“It may truly be said of good old Sister M. Lawrence Doyle that she worked out her salvation at Laurel Hill Academy, for during all the years of her religious life she had scarcely ever been outside its convent walls. She entered at Laurel Hill Academy, was a novice there in Mother Teresa’s time, and from that time until the day of her blessed death, July 27, 1912, she served our Lord in humility and simplicity. She was very fond of the children, and generations of boys and girls in Susquehanna hold in loving remembrance the “sweet thanks” of Sister Lawrence for the little services they gladly gave her.”

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. 353