September 18, 2009
People We Care About
Following is a feature in the Message, designed to help draw together the People of God in southwestern Indiana. Readers are invited to submit information about people who may benefit by some extra prayers and attention.
• William E. Martin, 88, of Cynthiana, died Sept. 7. He is the father of Father David Martin, associate pastor at St. John the Baptist Church in Newburgh.
He was born in Gibson County in 1921 to Edward and Amelia (Miller) Martin. He married Dorothy Mae Spahn in 1941.
Survivors include his wife of 67 years, Dorothy; two daughters, Jane Ann Kiefer of Cynthiana and Mary Ruth Lasher of Evansville; four sons, Stephen Martin and Harry Martin, both of Haubstadt, Father David Martin of New-burgh, and Mark Martin of Cynthiana; 18 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.
Along with his parents, he was preceded in death by his son, Roger Martin, and two sisters, Mary Catherine Scheller and Franciscan Sister Jane Frances Martin.
A funeral Mass was held at St. Wendel Church in St. Wendel.
• Daughter of Charity Sister Gerald Mulvanny, 90, died at Seton Residence in Evansville, Sept. 10.
She entered the Daughters of Charity in St. Louis, Mo., in December of 1943.
In 1945, Sister Gerald was sent to St. Margaret Hospital, Montgomery, Ala., where she taught nursing and served as a nursing supervisor. Sister Gerald continued the same duties at Hotel Dieu in New Orleans, La., from 1946 until she was sent to St. Vincent Hospital in St. Louis to serve as a psychiatric nursing supervisor and teacher in 1954. From 1960 to 68, she worked as supervisor of the Psychiatric Department at Charity Hospital in New Orleans.
She served as a medical floor supervisor at St. Mary Hospital, Evansville, from 1968 to 1970 and at St. Vincent Hospital, Birmingham, Ala., from 1970 to 1980. She spent the next four years at Providence Hospital in Southfield, Mich., as the safety coordinator and manager and maintenance supervisor in Farmington Hills.
When Sister Gerald returned to Birmingham in 1984, she worked in the nursing supervisor’s office, coordinated pastoral care and supervised the copy center. In September of 2003, she came to Seton Residence in Evansville to serve in the Ministry of Prayer and to assist with work in the Vocation Office.
Survivors include her sister, Catherine (Bernard) Wichman of Greenfield, Wis.
A Mass of the Resurrection was celebrated in Seton Chapel Sept. 14.
Please send information for PEOPLE WE CARE ABOUT to Mary Ann Hughes, The Message, P.O. Box 4169, Evansville, IN 47724. The e-mail address is mhughes@evansville-diocese.org.