Sister Marie Immaculate Yahner, IHM
July 15, 1907 – April 25, 1930
Sister Marie 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 Cambria County, 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 Marie 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 Yahner and Sister Casilda Yahner, OSB.
She is survived by six brothers, Paul, Charles, Thomas, Father Cyprin, OSB, Cpl. Germain, and James; two sisters, Sister Geraldine Yahner, OSB, and Sister M. Serenus Yahner, IHM; nieces and nephews.
Interment will follow the Mass of Christian Burial at Our Mother of Sorrows Cemetery in Greenfield Township, PA.
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