Sister mary lauretta biography of alberta

Family genealogists know that when researching deceased relatives, it is often possible to catch glimpses of their interests and personalities in their living descendants. This is absolutely true of Sister M. Alberta and her deceased Dominican-Sister relatives.

To read the biographies of Sister M. Alberta’s three aunts and her sister, Sister Rene, is to locate something of the fire for Dominican life and service that we see present in Sister Alberta’s life, too.

These biographies have been gleaned from the archives.

Each was written after the sister’s death to be read in the dining room at the motherhouse on their death anniversaries.

Sister M. Augusta Gougherty

[Sister Augusta was the blood sister of Sister M. Alberta’s great-grandmother—who, when a young woman, delivered food, sometimes on horseback, to the founding sisters in Jacksonville.]

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Augusta was born at Woodson in 1862 and made her profession in Jacksonville in 1883. She was procurator [of goods and supplies]