Allegany County MD Archives Obituaries..... Sister Mary ALBANA, 1948 File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Shawn McGreevy shawnmcgreevy@geatz.com Copyright. All Rights Reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/md/mdfiles.htm ********************************************************* Cumberland Times, Cumberland, Maryland, 16 May 1948: "MT. SAVAGE, May 15 - Sister Mary Albana, 70, Order of Sisters of Notre Dame, died early yesterday morning at Notre Dame College of Maryland, Baltimore, according to word received by relatives. She had been ill several weeks and underwent a major operation about two months ago. Sister Mary Albana entered the religious order 47 years ago and had been stationed at the college almost that length of time. She was a daughter of the late Patrick and Elizabeth (Conroy) Hoye, Frostburg. Three of her sisters, Sister Mary Perpetua and Sister Mary Leo, Mercy Order of Sisters, and Sister Mary Eliza, Notre Dame Order of Nuns, died in recent years. Sister Mary Albana was the guest of the Sisters of Notre Dame, St. Patrick's Convent, in July 1943, when she was here on account of illness of a relative. Survivors include a brother, Joseph Hoye, Baltimore, and the following nieces and nephews: Mrs. James H. Weimer, Mrs. Stanley Welmer and Mrs. Elizabeth Robison, Mt. Savage; Bernard Winner, Lonaconing, and Joseph Winner, Frostburg. Mrs. James Weimer and her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. James Robison, were at her bedside shortly before her death. The funeral services will be held Monday at 9:30 a. m. in Baltimore. Burial will be in the Sisters of Notre Dame Cemetery." FindaGrave Memorial: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgipage=gr&GSln=hoye&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=22&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=90094581&df=all& This file is located at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/md/allegany/obits/a/albana-sm.txt