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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: [Newspaper] Emmetsburg Democrat; Palo Alto, Iowa; 5 Mar 1919
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 18:11:12 -0600


Emmetsburg Democrat
Emmetsburg, Palo Alto, Iowa
Wednesday, 5 Mar 1919

SISTER MARY EMALITE DEAD
She Was a Daughter of the Late Mr. and Mrs. James Brennan of Great Oak
Township

Sister Mary Emalite, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. James Brennan of
Great Oak township, passed away yesterday at Mt. Carmel, Dubuque; after an
illness of several months duration. She was taken with the influenza some
time during the fall and she continued to decline. Her attending physician,
in due time, realized that nothing could be done to help her. The funeral
services will be conducted at Mt. Carmel. The burial will be in the
beautiful cemetery on the grounds close by. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Selle, Mrs.
William Molloy and T.H. Brennan left for Dubuque Tuesday evening to be
present at the obsequies.
Bridget Brennan was born in Great Oak township August 31, 1884. She attended
the local schools and grew to womanhood in her home community. She prepared
herself for school work and for a number of years taught in our county. She
was successful and soon gained an enviable reputation in her chosen line. In
September, 1906, she entered the order of the Sisters of Charity of the
B.V.M. as a novice and some years later took her final vows. She taught for
some time in an academy in Kansas and was in the Sacred Heart school at Fort
Dodge for six or seven years. From Fort Dodge she was transferred to a
convent at Rapid City, South Dakota. It was there that she lost her health.
Sister Mary Emalite is survived by five sisters and one brother, her parents
having died quite a number of years ago. The sisters are Mesdames William
Hamilton, Henry Selle and William Molloy of this place, Mrs. John Conlon of
Leola, South Dakota, and Miss Nellie Brennan, who is living in Dubuque. The
only brother is T.H. Brennan, who lives south of this city.
Sister Mary Emalite, as a young lady, was ambitious, earnest, industrious
and discreet. She won well deserved recognition among the honored young
women of our county. At a comparatively early age she felt that she should
give her life in promoting the interests of Christian education and she
responded willingly to the promptings of her heart. The preparation was
exacting and it was difficult for one of her years and her opportunities to
abandon the pleasures and hte companions of her early womanhood for the life
of a religious, but God called her to his service and she could not refuse
to answer the summons. How well she performed the laborious, trying duties
of her station in life is known only to those who were her pupils, to their
watchful, zealous parents and to her associates in the order of which she
was for many years a member. We pay high tribute to those who give
generously of their energy, time and means towards charitable purposes and
to others who make special contributions for the good of their community,
state and nation but we seldom hear of the great sacrifices of thousands
like Sister Mary Emalite who give every day, every hour of their time in
academies, hospitals, asylums and similar institutions that others may be
physically, intellectually and spiritually benefited.

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Cathy Joynt Labath

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