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St. Marys Academy, Mother House, Sisters of Mercy, Omaha, NE

Can you identify these people?

Can anyone identify either the year or people in the photo below? What was the event? The only description I have is: St. Marys Academy, Mother House, Sisters of Mercy Omaha Nebaska. My relatives connected with Sisters of Mercy are:

Sister Mary Genevieve (Johanna Hogan daughter of Patrick Hogan and Catherine Dwyer Hogan). Mother Superior at St. Catherines Hospital Omaha Nebraska and supervisor of St. James Orphanage.
Source is newspaper clipping of her diamond Jubilee 1957.

Sister Loretta (daughter of Anna Hogan Gorman and Richard Gorman) taught at St. Peter and Pauls school. Insituted Little Baseball there and the school team went on win the Legion Championship of the United States.
Source is Mead Nebraska Centennial book.

Gertrude Gorman attended a school run by the sister of Mercy and graduated sometime in the 1920s. I do have her school ring. Source is oral history.

Sincerely,
Caroyl Donahue (Caroyld@aol.com)

St. Marys Academy, Sisters of Mercy

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