Sister Mary Ethelbert Hevern, IHM

Sister Mary Ethelbert Hevern, IHM, of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary died on Thursday, May 13, 1920, at St. John’s Convent in Cresson, PA.

She was born on May 30, 1896, in Johnstown, PA, and given the name Isabelle. She was the daugther of the late Charles and Frances Cassidy Hevern. She entered the IHM Congregation on February 22, 1914, received the religious habit on August 3, 1914, and made profession of her vows on August 2, 1916.

Sister Mary Ethelbert served in child care for resident children at St. John’s Home in Cresson, PA.

The funeral will be Friday, May 14, at St. Aloysius Church in Cresson, followed by interment at St. Aloysius Cemetery in Cresson, PA.

“On May 13, 1920, (sic) the Bishop officiated at the funeral of Sister Mary Ethelbert Hevern, a young religious of much promise. She had been early orphaned and was one of the first to be admitted to Saint John’s. The good Bishop was overjoyed when she made known to him her desire to become a religious. She was admitted to the novitiate at Mount Saint Mary’s and after her profession was sent to Saint John’s. In his funeral sermon the Bishop eulogized her pure and innocent life and expressed the hope that many of the girls of Saint Mary’s would follow in her footsteps.”

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, pgs. 318, 319