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Show NUN'S FUNERAL MASS ARRANGED Funeral mass for Sister Mary Mercedes, official and teacher of Catholic girls' schools here until her retirement in 1932, will be cele- brated Friday at a. m. in the Cathedral Ca-thedral of the Madeleine. Sermon will be by the Most Rev. Duane G. Hunt. D. D., bishop of Salt Lake Catholic diocese. Assist - ant priest will be the Rev. Robert J Dwyer ana deacons of honor will be the Rev. John D. Lagan and the Very Rev. Patrick F. Kennedy. Deaeon of mass will bo the Rev. Wilford J. Jerome and the Rev. Patrick McGuire will be assistant deacon of mass. Rev. Francis R. Lamothe will be master of ceremonies, cere-monies, assisted by Rev. James Claffey. Music will be furnished by the cathedral choir under direction of the Rev. John P. Finneral. i Sister Mercedes died Wednesday at 1 a. m. at Holy Cross hospital, where she had been confined aince breaking her hip in a fall more than a month ago. Born Mary Halligan at Flint. Mich., in 1853, tha daughter of Michael and Bridget Delaney Halligan, Halli-gan, she attended St. Mary's of Notre Dame, Ind.. and entered the congregation of Holy Cross In August. Au-gust. 1878. vember 29, 1880, and was sent to Salt Lake City the same year, where she had since resided, with the exception excep-tion of six months in Ogden. ' She taught at St. Mary's acad emy, St. Mary-ef-the-Wasatch until 1891, then was appointed bursar of the latter, holding that post until 1932. when she retired due to ill , health. Her golden jubilee mass was celebrated cele-brated in 1930 at the Cathedral of the Madeleine with a sermon by the Moat Rev. John J. Mitty, archbishop of San Francisco, then bishop of the Salt Lake diocese. |