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In Memoriam
Marie Regina Baummer, only daughter of Sigmund and Eleanor Roth Baummer, was born in Baltimore on October 6, 1923, and was baptized at St. Michael’s Church on Oct. 7. Jean, as she was called, had an older brother, Charles. Sister Caroleen later described her early days in “a beautiful Catholic...
Jutta Maria Wiegard was born on September 2, 1925, in Leignitz, Germany, the second child and first daughter of Carl Wiegard and Maria Kowalski. Her parents ran a grocery store there, until, at the request of relatives, the family moved to Chicago. There the relatives called the 9-month-old...
"On a cold winter morning, January 21, 1929, in the little mining town of Blossburg, PA., God gave life to a little girl of Catholic parents.” That little girl, youngest of the nine children of Stanley Peter and Helen Marchinack Jerzak, was named Marion Agnes. After 25 years in the coal mines,...
