Sister Mary Foley, CHM

SISTER MARY CORRINE FOLEY, CHM

Johnston

Sister Mary Corrine Foley, CHM, 95, died Nov. 6, 2015, at Bishop Drumm Retirement Center, Johnston, Iowa. Visitation will be Tuesday, Nov. 10, at Humility of Mary Center, Davenport, with a rosary at 4 p.m. to begin the visitation and a vigil service at 7 p.m. to conclude. Her funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11, at Humility of Mary Center, with burial to follow in Mount Calvary Cemetery.

Mary Emma Foley was born to Matthew and Emma Angerer Foley on June 29, 1920, in Hills, Iowa. She entered the Congregation of the Humility of Mary in 1938 and professed vows in 1941.

Sister Mary Corrine graduated from Marycrest College, Davenport, and taught in Iowa, Montana and Arizona. The Iowa schools included St. Anthony and St. Pius, Des Moines; Sacred Heart, West Des Moines; St. Joseph, Dunlap; Georgetown Public, Georgetown; St. Joseph, Neola; and St. Patrick, Ottumwa. She was the ultimate science teacher, always a lover of nature.

Sister provided home health care for her family in Belle Plaine. She retired to Humility of Mary Center in 2008 and moved to Bishop Drumm Retirement Center in 2014.

Sister Mary Corrine is survived by her brother, Raymond; nieces and nephews; and the Sisters and associates of her religious community.

She was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, Herbert, John, Leo, James, Joseph and Matthew; and sisters, Sister Miriam Therese Foley, CHM, and Cecilia Digney.

Memorials may be made to the Congregation of the Humility of Mary.

Online remembrances and condolences may be expressed to the family by visiting Sister Mary Corrine's obituary at www.hmdfuneral

home.com.