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In Memoriam
Irene Bopp was born in Chicago on March 15, 1924, the middle child of John Bopp and Catherin Breight, both immigrants from the German-speaking area of Russia. As she wrote, "Growing up in a happy German immigrant home with two sisters and six brothers was, for me, a very special blessing. I was...
Jane Joyce was born in Chicago on March 5, 1927 to Patrick Joyce and Bridget Heneghan. She and her twin Margaret Therese were the seventh and eighth of ten children. She was baptized at St. Benedict Church. Her autobiography gives a good taste of what her childhood was like:
The first of nine children, Mary Noreen, was born to Robert and Agnes Forestell Brown at St. Joseph Hospital, Baltimore, on September 28, 1918. Baby Noreen was baptized two weeks later at Blessed Sacrament Church. Though Agnes was small in stature and quiet by disposition, as her daughter,...
