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Sr Mary Gabriel “Nan” Berry

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Sr Mary Gabriel “Nan” Berry

Birth
Daviess County, Kentucky, USA
Death
2 May 1953 (aged 86)
Nerinx, Marion County, Kentucky, USA
Burial
Nerinx, Marion County, Kentucky, USA Add to Map
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Sister Mary Grabriel Berry, eighty-six years of age, passed away on May 2, 1953 at the Loretto Motherhouse following a lengthy illness.

She attended school at the Bethlehem Academy.

Born Nan Berry, she took the name Sister Mary Gabriel when she received the habit of the Sisters of Loretto on August 15, 1888.

She served in many capacities, including caring for influenza patients in the Eastern Kentucky coal mining region in 1918. She had been at the Saint Loretto Motherhouse since 1934.

She is survived by two brothers, George and Edward Berry; as well as her Sisters of Loretto.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Edward and Sallie Hagan Berry; and several siblings.
Sister Mary Grabriel Berry, eighty-six years of age, passed away on May 2, 1953 at the Loretto Motherhouse following a lengthy illness.

She attended school at the Bethlehem Academy.

Born Nan Berry, she took the name Sister Mary Gabriel when she received the habit of the Sisters of Loretto on August 15, 1888.

She served in many capacities, including caring for influenza patients in the Eastern Kentucky coal mining region in 1918. She had been at the Saint Loretto Motherhouse since 1934.

She is survived by two brothers, George and Edward Berry; as well as her Sisters of Loretto.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Edward and Sallie Hagan Berry; and several siblings.


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