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In Memory

Sister Mary Leo Malone, IHM

November 3, 1867 – July 23, 1915

Mary Leo Malone, IHM

Sister Mary Leo Malone, IHM, of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary died on Friday, July 23, 1915 at St. John’s Convent in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

She was born on November 3, 1867 in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, and given the name Ann. She was the daughter of the late Patrick and Marcella Moran Malone. She entered the IHM Congregation on September 28, 1885, received the religious habit on June 1, 1886, and made profession of her vows on July 12, 1888.

Sister Mary Leo enjoyed her years of teaching children in our IHM mission schools, including at St. Patrick School in Scranton, PA; St. Alphonsus School in Suquehanna, PA; Holy Rosary School in Scranton, PA; Annunciation School in Williamsport, PA; and St. Cecilia Academy in Scranton, PA. She served as examiner of parochial schools in the Diocese of Scranton, PA, from 1908 to 1911.

From 1913 until the time of her death, Sister Mary Leo served as superior of St. John’s Convent in Scranton, PA.

She received a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Arts degree, both from Catholic University in Washington, DC.

She is survived by two brothers, John and Reverend James, two sisters, Ella and Margaret Malone Brennan, and several nieces and nephews, including Harry Brennan.

The funeral will be Monday, July 26 at 9:00 a.m. at Mount Saint Mary’s Seminary, followed by interment at the Marywood College Cemetery, on the grounds of Marywood College in Scranton, PA.


“It was a great shock to the community when on the morning of July 24th, word was sent that Sister M. Leo was no more. Her call found her fully prepared to answer a hasty summons. Fenelon, the dove of Cambrai, has said, ”Just in the right time the hand will be laid on our shoulders, the word whispered in our ear. We must leave the sewing undone, the floor unswept, the plough in the furrow, the story untold, the song unsung” — and so it seemed with this dear Sister, from whom the community had reason to hope for many more years of faithful service. As a teacher she had been most successful; as an examiner of schools, kind and sympathetic. She did not hesitate to point out the defects that she found here and there in the work, but her kindly criticisms always strengthened and had the effect of exciting to greater efforts. Following the advice of the Apostle, she spent and has spent in her efforts to discharge faithfully her important duties. She had the consolation at the hour of death of knowing that she had left nothing undone to promote the cause of Catholic education.”

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. 454

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