Obituary Record
Hosmer, Mother Superior Mary Augustine - July 20, 1927
MOTHER AUGUSTINE PASSES AWAY AT ST. JOSEPH'S
Head of local convent and Academy departed Wednesday evening - Funeral took place Thursday -
Interment at St. Mary's.
Closing a long and useful life, Sister St. Augustin, mother superior of St. Joseph's Academy, Bay St. Louis, passed away peacefully and beautifully as she had lived on Wednesday evening at twelve minutes before six by the clock.
She had been a victim of a malady of the heart and other kindred ailment, practically an invalid for the past few years, but bore the circumstance of her illness with sublime fortitude and through it all continued as the chief executive of local convent and boarding academy and schools. It was through the fine business acumen of Mother Augustine, her ability as an administrator that the convent successfully passed through much of its business vicissitudes emerging from that trying condition following the fire of some years ago. She caused much of the financial obligation to be discharged and placed the institution on a basis of sound business and securing the future.
Native of Covington, La.
Mother Augustine, before entering the religious life, was Miss Camille Hosmer, a native of Covington, La, and on June 28th of this year celebrated her seventy-second birthday. She was a daughter of James Hosmer and Josephine Gusman.
Her nearest surviving relatives are cousins, Miss Fifi Hosmer, of Bay St. Louis; Forster Commagere, also of this city; Mrs. Charles Buck, Jr, and the James Prevost family, of New Orleans.
Mother Augustin was stationed here in former years and returned on her last stay about 1919 when she was made head of the local house of the Order of the Sisters of St. Joseph. Consequently, she was well known here, better than ordinarily. She was a splendid woman and all who knew her esteemed her for the fine type she represented.
The funeral took place Thursday morning and was largely attended by the townspeople. A requiem high Mass at the church of Our Lady of the Gulf marked the ceremony. Interment in the religious community burial section of St. Mary's cemetery.
Such large attendance was a fitting tribute. Bay St. Louis best knew and loved this distinguished woman who had spent her long life in the service of God and humanity. Her memory will ever remain fresh in the minds of all who knew her.
Source: Sea Coast Echo 07/23/1927