Recollections of My Life and Reflections on Times and Events During It: A Memoir by Father W. J. Howlett

Sr. Theodora (Catherine Howlett) falls ill

"In his missions my mother and other members of the family lived, and while attending these missions I received word that my sister--Sister Theodora--was ill of a deadly disease in St Louis. Without returning to my parish I went to St Louis and found here [her] she was rapidly wasting away with lung trouble. A sever [severe] cold, caught at Christmas time, had settled in her lungs, and now death was only a question of a short time."

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