Sister M.S.C

Sister Mary Stephanie Bourg, M.S.C.

Opelousas Funeral services for Sister Mary Stephanie Bourg, 97, will be held at 10:30AM Wednesday, August 8, 2007, at St. Landry Catholic Church in Opelousas. Interment will follow in Our Lady of Holy Cross Mausoleum in New Orleans.

Monsignor Robert Romero will conduct the services.

Sister Mary Stephanie Bourg, M.S.C., a native of Houma and resident of Opelousas, died at 1:17AM on Sunday, August 5, 2007.

Sister Bourg entered the Congregation of the Marianites of Holy Cross in 1929. She was an elementary and high school teacher. She taught at Sts. Peter and Paul, St. Rita, Holy Name of Mary and Holy Angels in New Orleans. She also taught at St. Basil in Plaquemine, St. Francis in Houma, Sacred Heart in Morgan City, St. John in Plaquemine, St. John in Franklin, Academy of the Immaculate Conception Opelousas Catholic in Opelousas. She served as Principal at Sacred Heart in Morgan City.

Sister was involved in tutoring and in Parish ministry in Opelousas.

She served on the staff, and in the library and computer lab at Our Lady of Holy Cross College in New Orleans.

Sister had been in residence at Prompt Succor Nursing Facility in Opelousas, where she continued her ministry of prayer.
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Visitation

St. Landry Catholic Church
1020 North Main Street
Opelousas, LA  70570
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
8:00AM until service

Service

Mass of Christian Burial

St. Landry Catholic Church
1020 North Main Street
Opelousas, LA  70570
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
10:30AM

Cemetery

Our Lady of Holy Cross College Mausoleum
4123 Woodland Dr.
Algiers, LA  70114