Sister M. Immaculate Yahner, IHM
July 15, 1907 – April 25, 1930
Sister M. Immaculate Yahner, IHM, of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary died on Friday, April 25, 1930, at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Carbondale, PA.
She was born on July 15, 1907, in Hastings, PA, and given the name Margaret Anna. She was the daughter of Isadore Paul and Mary Lavinia Wilt Yahner. She entered the IHM Congregation on August 14, 1926, received the religious habit on December 29, 1926, and made profession of her vows on January 2, 1929.
Sister Immaculate served as a teacher at St. Mary Elementary School in Avoca, PA.
She was preceded in death by a brother, Edwin, and two sisters, Gertrude R. (infant) and Sister Casilda Yahner, OSB.
She is survived by six brothers, Paul and Charles of Hastings, PA, Thomas of Sunbury, PA, Father Cyprin, OSB, stationed at St. Vincent College, Cpl. Germain, US Army, stationed in Germany, and James of Reading, PA; two sisters, Sister Geraldine Yahner, OSB, of Pittsburgh, PA, and Sister M. Serenus Yahner, IHM, of Scranton, PA; nieces and nephews.
The funeral will be Monday, April 28, at 9:30 a.m. at St. Rose’s Church in Carbondale. Interment will follow at Our Mother of Sorrow Cemetery in Greenfield Township, PA. Friends may call on Sunday at St. Rose Convent.
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