Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bernard, Elizabeth 1973
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The Portland Review, Wednesday, August 1, 1973

Funeral mass was held July 24 in Kalamazoo for Sister Elizabeth Bernard, 71, 
formerly of Portland, former administrator of Borgess hospital, who died July 
21.  Sister Elizabeth was born Oct. 18, 1901 in Westphalia to the late Mr. and 
Mrs. Bernard Trierweiler.  They moved to Portland in 1903.  Sister Elizabeth 
entered the Sisters of St. Joseph order in 1924 and took her final vows in 
1930.

A registered nurse and graduate of the Borgess School of Nursing, Sister 
Elizabeth served in the operating rooms of Borgess for 18 years.  She was 
administrator there from 1947 to 1953, after which she became a council member 
of the executive board of the Sisters of St. Joseph for four years.

Sister Elizabeth served six years as administrator of Mercy hospital in Monroe 
and returned to Borgess in 1965 as head nurse on the third floor.  In 1968, 
she was assigned to work at Nazareth until she became ill in March.

Sister Elizabeth is survived by six sisters, Sister Evangeline Trierweiler of 
Lansing, Mrs. Bernita Wilcox, Mrs. Agnes Gross and Miss Rita Trierweiler, all 
of Portland, Mrs. Regina Albert of Waupun, Wis. And Florence Schindorf of 
Belding; and two brothers, Leo Trierweiler of Portland and Sylvester 
Trierweiler of Belding.

Burial was in Kalamazoo.


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