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Sr Mary Benedict Heiss

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Sr Mary Benedict Heiss

Birth
Duncansville, Blair County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
14 Dec 2010 (aged 95)
Dallas, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Cresson, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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Sister Mary Benedict Heiss, R.S.M., 95, a member of the Mid-Atlantic Community of the Sisters of Mercy, died Tuesday at Mercy Center, Dallas, Pa.

She was born in Duncansville, daughter of the late Paul and Caroline (Brunner) Heiss.

Surviving are a brother, Frank and wife, Rita, of Munster; several nieces and nephews; and the Sisters of Mercy.

She was preceded in death by four sisters: Anna, Rose, Betty and Lena; and seven brothers: Joseph, Paul, John, Carl, Albert, Raymond and William.

Sister Mary graduated from Hollidaysburg High School and then from College Misericordia, Dallas, with a bachelor's degree in music education. She received her master's degree in music from Columbia University, New York, and used her musical talent to teach as well as to entertain at many joyful gatherings. She entered the Sisters of Mercy on Sept. 8, 1937, and professed her vows on March 12, 1940. Sister Mary taught in the dioceses of Allentown, Altoona-Johnstown and Brooklyn.

Friends will be received from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Charles M. Kennedy Funeral Home, Cresson. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010, at the Basilica of St. Michael, Loretto. Committal will be in Sisters of Mercy Cemetery, Cresson.

Memorial contributions in the name of Sister Mary Benedict Heiss may be made to Mercy Center, P.O. Box 370, Dallas, PA 18612.

Altoona Mirror
Sister Mary Benedict Heiss, R.S.M., 95, a member of the Mid-Atlantic Community of the Sisters of Mercy, died Tuesday at Mercy Center, Dallas, Pa.

She was born in Duncansville, daughter of the late Paul and Caroline (Brunner) Heiss.

Surviving are a brother, Frank and wife, Rita, of Munster; several nieces and nephews; and the Sisters of Mercy.

She was preceded in death by four sisters: Anna, Rose, Betty and Lena; and seven brothers: Joseph, Paul, John, Carl, Albert, Raymond and William.

Sister Mary graduated from Hollidaysburg High School and then from College Misericordia, Dallas, with a bachelor's degree in music education. She received her master's degree in music from Columbia University, New York, and used her musical talent to teach as well as to entertain at many joyful gatherings. She entered the Sisters of Mercy on Sept. 8, 1937, and professed her vows on March 12, 1940. Sister Mary taught in the dioceses of Allentown, Altoona-Johnstown and Brooklyn.

Friends will be received from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Charles M. Kennedy Funeral Home, Cresson. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010, at the Basilica of St. Michael, Loretto. Committal will be in Sisters of Mercy Cemetery, Cresson.

Memorial contributions in the name of Sister Mary Benedict Heiss may be made to Mercy Center, P.O. Box 370, Dallas, PA 18612.

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