OBIT: Mary FLOWERS (Sister Mary DeSales), 1890, formerly of Blair County, PA

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Death of a Sister.

  Sister M. DeSales, mother superior of the Visitation convent at 
Parkersburg, West Virginia, died in that religious institution on 
Sunday last.  Her body was interred in the Catholic cemetery at that 
place.  The deceased was a former resident of Altoona, and was known to 
the world as Mrs. Flowers.  Years ago she and her husband carried on 
the mercantile business in Altoona, being located on Eleventh avenue 
near Thirteenth street.  No children were born to them.  On the death 
of her husband, Mrs. Flowers entered a convent, rising to the position 
which she held at the time of her death.  She was pre-eminently a 
Christian woman.  During her entire life she labored for the 
advancement  of the cause of the Master and when death came to and 
called her to a better land she was ready and willing to answer the 
summons.  Dying in the faith of the church of her choice, receiving the 
last sacraments from the hands of its devoted advocates, death came to 
her with no terrors, but rather as a means of reaching the happiness 
prepared by those who die in the Lord.  The deceased was a sister of 
Mrs. Jane McClain, formerly of Altoona, but now of Philadelphia.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Wednesday, October 22, 1890

Flowers, James, 12 Feb 1793-26 Apr 1863; erected by wife Mary, shares 
stone with Richard & E. Jane McClain, & Julia Carr