Della Eva West

Female 1909 - 1957  (48 years)


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  • Name Della Eva West 
    Born 20 Apr 1909  Freedom, Outagamie Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Occupation Sisters Servant of Christ the King 
    Died 14 Aug 1957 
    Buried Holy Cross Cemetery, Mt Calvary, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I8040  Little Chute Genealogy
    Last Modified 3 Nov 2018 

    Father Henry John West,   b. 02 Jan 1869, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Feb 1947  (Age 78 years) 
    Mother Wilhelmena Mary Ebben,   b. 28 Jan 1871, Freedom, Outagamie Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Feb 1950  (Age 79 years) 
    Married 10 Nov 1891  St Nicholas Church, Freedom, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2523  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    • APPLETON POST CRESCENT
      Sister Jeanne Marie, 48, of the Sisters Servant of Christ the King, died Friday night after an illness of 11 days at Queen of Angels Convent, Mt. Calvary. She was the first member of the new order to die. The order was organized eight years ago. She was born April 20, 1909, in Freedom. She lived in Appleton from 1935 ti 1951, when she entered the order.
      Funeral services will be Monday morning at Holy Cross Catholic Church, Mt. Calvary with burial in the parish cemetery.
      She is survived by one sister, Mrs. Harry (Mae) Vandenberg, Appleton; and nine brothers, Hary, William and Clarence West all of Milwaukee, and Joseph, Lawrence, George, Peter, Raymond and Edward West, all of Appleton. Per newspaper clipping appearing in the Appleton Post Crescent, date unknown: Miss Della West, formerly of 1112 N. Drew Street, received the habit and entered the novitiate of the order of Sister Servants of Christ-King at Loretto convent, Moun t Calvary, Wis. this morning. She has taken the religious name of Sister Jane Marie. Miss West is the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry West of Appleton. The order, which was founded only three years ago by the Rev. Aloisius J. Muench, bis hop of Fargo, N.D., does cooking and laundry work for the Capuchin seminary at Mt. Calvary and serves a home for the aged in Edgely. The order was organized to work in institutions and follows the practices and rules of the Franciscan religious or der although it is not affiliated with that order. Index to obituaries from the newspaper "The Appleton Post Crescent": 1936-1971, (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1995), card #1729 microfilm 1991818 FHL, Sister Jeanne Marie WEST, d.o.d. Friday 16 August 1957, age 48 , d.o.b. 20 April 1909 Freedom, Wisconsin, APC Saturday 17 August 1957, page 12.
      afflicted with cretinism