Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Carmelite Monastery. The Most Rev. Lawrence D. Soens will be the Main Celebrant and Homilist. The Most Rev. Daniel N. DiNardo, the Rev. Gerald Hartz, the Rev. Richard Sitzmann, the Rev. Patrick O'Kane, the Rev. Roger Linnan, the Rev. Bernard Sheehan, O.S.B. and other priests will concelebrate. Burial will be in Carmelite Cemetery.
Visitation will be 2 to 9 p.m. today, with Vespers of the Dead sung at 4 p.m. and the Office of Readings of the Dead at 7:30 p.m. sung by the Carmelite Guild and the Carmelite Nuns, all at the Carmelite Monastery.
Larkin Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Sister Michael of Jesus-Mary, O.C.D., the former Bernice Skelly, was born Sept. 29, 1917, in Chicago, Ill., the daughter of William Henry and Elizabeth (Ryan) Skelly. She entered the Order of Discalced Carmelites in 1936, in Bettendorf, Iowa. She received her habit on July 16, 1936 and her profession was on July 16, 1937.
Sister Michael, together with Mother Agnes, founded the Carmelite Monastery of Our Lady of the Incarnation in Sioux City in 1962.
Survivors include two sisters, Elizabeth Skelly of Sioux City and Lucille Lunney of Chicago; a sister-in-law of California; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by a brother, Paul.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Carmelite Monastery. The Most Rev. Lawrence D. Soens will be the Main Celebrant and Homilist. The Most Rev. Daniel N. DiNardo, the Rev. Gerald Hartz, the Rev. Richard Sitzmann, the Rev. Patrick O'Kane, the Rev. Roger Linnan, the Rev. Bernard Sheehan, O.S.B. and other priests will concelebrate. Burial will be in Carmelite Cemetery.
Visitation will be 2 to 9 p.m. today, with Vespers of the Dead sung at 4 p.m. and the Office of Readings of the Dead at 7:30 p.m. sung by the Carmelite Guild and the Carmelite Nuns, all at the Carmelite Monastery.
Larkin Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Sister Michael of Jesus-Mary, O.C.D., the former Bernice Skelly, was born Sept. 29, 1917, in Chicago, Ill., the daughter of William Henry and Elizabeth (Ryan) Skelly. She entered the Order of Discalced Carmelites in 1936, in Bettendorf, Iowa. She received her habit on July 16, 1936 and her profession was on July 16, 1937.
Sister Michael, together with Mother Agnes, founded the Carmelite Monastery of Our Lady of the Incarnation in Sioux City in 1962.
Survivors include two sisters, Elizabeth Skelly of Sioux City and Lucille Lunney of Chicago; a sister-in-law of California; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by a brother, Paul.
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