FERDINAND - Sister Carla Mitchell, 104, of Monastery Immaculate Conception in Ferdinand, died at 6:20 a.m. Monday, Oct. 27, 2008, in the monastery's Hildegard Health Center.
Sister Carla, formerly Sister Mary Charles, was born Dec. 21, 1903, in Evansville, to the late Charles and Cecilia (Born) Mitchell. Also preceding her in death were her brothers, Clarence, Elmer and Raymond Mitchell and a sister, Benedictine Sister Mary Inez Mitchell.
She entered the Sisters of St. Benedict of Ferdinand in 1921 and made her first profession of vows in 1922 and her final profession in 1925. Last October she celebrated her 85th anniversary of religious profession, the only member of the Sisters of St. Benedict of Ferdinand, and possibly the only Benedictine sister in the United States, to reach that jubilee. She was also the longest living Ferdinand Benedictine sister. For almost 80 years, she taught in Arizona, California, Indiana, Louisiana and North Dakota. In Indiana, she taught at Floyds Knobs, St. Ferdinand and the former Academy and St. Benedict College in Ferdinand, Tell City, St. Henry, St. Joseph, Trinity and Mater Dei in Evansville, Elberfeld, Montgomery and Fort Branch. More than 40 of her poems were published in the Inter-national Library of Poets and she wrote a history of the Sisters of St. Benedict of Ferdinand for their 125th anniversary in 1992. She served in supportive ministries at the monastery, and for the past five years, in the ministry of prayer.
Surviving are a sister, Mary Agnes Olinger of Huntingburg, and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be at 4:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 30, in the Monastery Immaculate Conception Church in Ferdinand with burial in the monastery cemetery.
Sister Carla, formerly Sister Mary Charles, was born Dec. 21, 1903, in Evansville, to the late Charles and Cecilia (Born) Mitchell. Also preceding her in death were her brothers, Clarence, Elmer and Raymond Mitchell and a sister, Benedictine Sister Mary Inez Mitchell.
She entered the Sisters of St. Benedict of Ferdinand in 1921 and made her first profession of vows in 1922 and her final profession in 1925. Last October she celebrated her 85th anniversary of religious profession, the only member of the Sisters of St. Benedict of Ferdinand, and possibly the only Benedictine sister in the United States, to reach that jubilee. She was also the longest living Ferdinand Benedictine sister. For almost 80 years, she taught in Arizona, California, Indiana, Louisiana and North Dakota. In Indiana, she taught at Floyds Knobs, St. Ferdinand and the former Academy and St. Benedict College in Ferdinand, Tell City, St. Henry, St. Joseph, Trinity and Mater Dei in Evansville, Elberfeld, Montgomery and Fort Branch. More than 40 of her poems were published in the Inter-national Library of Poets and she wrote a history of the Sisters of St. Benedict of Ferdinand for their 125th anniversary in 1992. She served in supportive ministries at the monastery, and for the past five years, in the ministry of prayer.
Surviving are a sister, Mary Agnes Olinger of Huntingburg, and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be at 4:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 30, in the Monastery Immaculate Conception Church in Ferdinand with burial in the monastery cemetery.
FERDINAND - Sister Carla Mitchell, 104, of Monastery Immaculate Conception in Ferdinand, died at 6:20 a.m. Monday, Oct. 27, 2008, in the monastery's Hildegard Health Center.
Sister Carla, formerly Sister Mary Charles, was born Dec. 21, 1903, in Evansville, to the late Charles and Cecilia (Born) Mitchell. Also preceding her in death were her brothers, Clarence, Elmer and Raymond Mitchell and a sister, Benedictine Sister Mary Inez Mitchell.
She entered the Sisters of St. Benedict of Ferdinand in 1921 and made her first profession of vows in 1922 and her final profession in 1925. Last October she celebrated her 85th anniversary of religious profession, the only member of the Sisters of St. Benedict of Ferdinand, and possibly the only Benedictine sister in the United States, to reach that jubilee. She was also the longest living Ferdinand Benedictine sister. For almost 80 years, she taught in Arizona, California, Indiana, Louisiana and North Dakota. In Indiana, she taught at Floyds Knobs, St. Ferdinand and the former Academy and St. Benedict College in Ferdinand, Tell City, St. Henry, St. Joseph, Trinity and Mater Dei in Evansville, Elberfeld, Montgomery and Fort Branch. More than 40 of her poems were published in the Inter-national Library of Poets and she wrote a history of the Sisters of St. Benedict of Ferdinand for their 125th anniversary in 1992. She served in supportive ministries at the monastery, and for the past five years, in the ministry of prayer.
Surviving are a sister, Mary Agnes Olinger of Huntingburg, and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be at 4:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 30, in the Monastery Immaculate Conception Church in Ferdinand with burial in the monastery cemetery.
Sister Carla, formerly Sister Mary Charles, was born Dec. 21, 1903, in Evansville, to the late Charles and Cecilia (Born) Mitchell. Also preceding her in death were her brothers, Clarence, Elmer and Raymond Mitchell and a sister, Benedictine Sister Mary Inez Mitchell.
She entered the Sisters of St. Benedict of Ferdinand in 1921 and made her first profession of vows in 1922 and her final profession in 1925. Last October she celebrated her 85th anniversary of religious profession, the only member of the Sisters of St. Benedict of Ferdinand, and possibly the only Benedictine sister in the United States, to reach that jubilee. She was also the longest living Ferdinand Benedictine sister. For almost 80 years, she taught in Arizona, California, Indiana, Louisiana and North Dakota. In Indiana, she taught at Floyds Knobs, St. Ferdinand and the former Academy and St. Benedict College in Ferdinand, Tell City, St. Henry, St. Joseph, Trinity and Mater Dei in Evansville, Elberfeld, Montgomery and Fort Branch. More than 40 of her poems were published in the Inter-national Library of Poets and she wrote a history of the Sisters of St. Benedict of Ferdinand for their 125th anniversary in 1992. She served in supportive ministries at the monastery, and for the past five years, in the ministry of prayer.
Surviving are a sister, Mary Agnes Olinger of Huntingburg, and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be at 4:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 30, in the Monastery Immaculate Conception Church in Ferdinand with burial in the monastery cemetery.
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