Catherine Rose Foley: Born June 2, 1869, St. Charles, Illinois. Daughter of Thomas M. Foley and Bridget Catherine Drennan, both natives of Ireland.
Catherine was the 4th of eleven children. She entered the BVMs on May 24, 1889. She entered from Elgin, Illinois; the BVMs began staffing the parish school there when Katie was 10, which probably explains why she chose the BVMs.
She was received on November 15, 1889, made first vows on December 20, 1891... and final vows on December 31, 1914 (the first time that BVMs were allowed to make perpetual vows; prior to that they could only make temporary, 3-year vows). The order has no record of her missions prior to 1909, but after that she served as a housekeeper in Davenport, Iowa (1908 – 1915), and then in Chicago from 1915 until the 1930s she was the convent cook at Holy Cross grade school on Chicago's south side. Her death on March 1, 1942. She is buried at Mount Carmel cemetery in Hillside, Illinois.
Her parents and many of her siblings are interred at Mount Hope Cemetery, Elgin, IL.
Catherine was the 4th of eleven children. She entered the BVMs on May 24, 1889. She entered from Elgin, Illinois; the BVMs began staffing the parish school there when Katie was 10, which probably explains why she chose the BVMs.
She was received on November 15, 1889, made first vows on December 20, 1891... and final vows on December 31, 1914 (the first time that BVMs were allowed to make perpetual vows; prior to that they could only make temporary, 3-year vows). The order has no record of her missions prior to 1909, but after that she served as a housekeeper in Davenport, Iowa (1908 – 1915), and then in Chicago from 1915 until the 1930s she was the convent cook at Holy Cross grade school on Chicago's south side. Her death on March 1, 1942. She is buried at Mount Carmel cemetery in Hillside, Illinois.
Her parents and many of her siblings are interred at Mount Hope Cemetery, Elgin, IL.
Catherine Rose Foley: Born June 2, 1869, St. Charles, Illinois. Daughter of Thomas M. Foley and Bridget Catherine Drennan, both natives of Ireland.
Catherine was the 4th of eleven children. She entered the BVMs on May 24, 1889. She entered from Elgin, Illinois; the BVMs began staffing the parish school there when Katie was 10, which probably explains why she chose the BVMs.
She was received on November 15, 1889, made first vows on December 20, 1891... and final vows on December 31, 1914 (the first time that BVMs were allowed to make perpetual vows; prior to that they could only make temporary, 3-year vows). The order has no record of her missions prior to 1909, but after that she served as a housekeeper in Davenport, Iowa (1908 – 1915), and then in Chicago from 1915 until the 1930s she was the convent cook at Holy Cross grade school on Chicago's south side. Her death on March 1, 1942. She is buried at Mount Carmel cemetery in Hillside, Illinois.
Her parents and many of her siblings are interred at Mount Hope Cemetery, Elgin, IL.
Catherine was the 4th of eleven children. She entered the BVMs on May 24, 1889. She entered from Elgin, Illinois; the BVMs began staffing the parish school there when Katie was 10, which probably explains why she chose the BVMs.
She was received on November 15, 1889, made first vows on December 20, 1891... and final vows on December 31, 1914 (the first time that BVMs were allowed to make perpetual vows; prior to that they could only make temporary, 3-year vows). The order has no record of her missions prior to 1909, but after that she served as a housekeeper in Davenport, Iowa (1908 – 1915), and then in Chicago from 1915 until the 1930s she was the convent cook at Holy Cross grade school on Chicago's south side. Her death on March 1, 1942. She is buried at Mount Carmel cemetery in Hillside, Illinois.
Her parents and many of her siblings are interred at Mount Hope Cemetery, Elgin, IL.
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