Sister Catherine McCabe

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated May 24 for Sister of Charity Catherine Laboure McCabe, 93, at the motherhouse chapel in Delhi Township. She died May 20 at Mother Margaret Hall, Mount St. Joseph.

A native of Cincinnati, she earned a bachelor of science in French from the College of Mount St. Joseph and a bachelor of arts from the Athenaeum of Ohio. She began her teaching ministry in 1935 in Detroit, Mich., and Chillicothe, Ohio. She served most of her 55 years in education teaching elementary school in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati at Holy Family, 1936-41; St. Elizabeth in Norwood, 1941-43 and 1959-64; Holy Angels in Sidney, 1943-45; St. Patrick, 1945-46; St. John the Baptist in Harrison, 1947-52; St. Saviour in Rossmoyne, 1952-53; St. Gabriel Consolidated in Glendale, 1953-59; St. Jude, 1964-70; St. Dominic, 1970-83; St. Lawrence, 1983-90 and St. Vincent de Paul, 1990-94. She retired to the motherhouse in 1994.

Interment was in the Sisters of Charity cemetery.

Sister Mary Xavier (Clotilda) Schnipke

A Mass of Christian Burial for Precious Blood Sister Mary Xavier Schnipke, 90, was held at Salem Heights on June 11. She died June 4 at Maria Joseph Living Care Center in Dayton. She had been a Sister of the Precious Blood for 72 years.
A native of Kalida, Ohio, she entered the Sisters of the Precious Blood in 1935 and received the name Sister Mary Xavier.

She spent 50 years in food service as cook and/or supervisor in Ohio and Indiana. She retired to Precious Blood Parish Convent in 1988 and moved to Salem Heights in 1995. Declining health necessitated her taking up residency at the Maria Joseph Living Care Center in 2002.

She is survived by three brothers, Alfred of Leipsic, Ohio, and William and Thomas of Kalida; and two sisters, Coletta Schimoeller of Cloverdale, Ohio., and Jean Byrne of Ottoville, Ohio.

Interment was in Salem Heights Cemetery.