Any other use requires written permission from the transcriber. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. The first jubilarian to go contemporary, she processed up the aisle in a green dress.
Death comes so soon at the very latest.
Whoever said it first might have had Mary Michael in mind. It's hard to realize that her mentor and close friend, Sr. M. Louise Lemoine, was also 65 when she died in 1970. Her beloved Sr. M. Edward Gianelloni died of cancer at 49. It was Sr. M. Edward who recognized Mary Michael's creative genius, and with Fr. From those early demonstration classes with her seventh grade it was a long, often painful journey to the resume that lists co-authorship of more than fifty books.