Obituary: Sr. Charlotte Marie Schwartz, 103, Nerinx

Sr. Charlotte Marie Schwartz, 103, of Nerinx, died Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2014, at the Loretto Motherhouse Infirmary. She was born April 26, 1911, in St. Louis, Mo., to the late Edward H. and Charlotte L. McDonough Schwartz. She entered religious life in 1934 and received her final vows in 1940. She attended A. B. Webster College in Missouri and earned degrees in English, History and Philosophy. She attended Indiana University where she earned a Master’s degree in Library Science. Her assignments were located in Colorado, Alabama, New Mexico, Illinois, Missouri, Texas, Alabama and Kentucky. Locally, she taught at Loretto Public School in 1936 in Loretto and Loretto High School in Louisville in 1938. She retired to the Loretto Motherhouse Infirmary in 2009.

The Mass of Christian Burial is 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 26, 2015, at the Loretto Motherhouse Church in Nerinx with burial in the Loretto Motherhouse Cemetery. A wake service is 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, at the Motherhouse.

The Mattingly Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.

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