Obituary Record

Guigue, Jeanne (Mother Claire)  -  May 24, 1959

Mother Claire of Assisi, 81, of St. Joseph's Provincial House, New Orleans, died Sunday, May 24 at 9 a. m.

Jeanne Guigue, in religion, Mother Claire of Assissi, a native of Lyons, France, and a resident of New Orleans for the past 14 years, was a daughter of the late Louis Guigue and Alexandrine Bouchard.

Mother Claire was well known in Bay St. Louis as she spent 33 years at St. Joseph Academy. She served as Mother Superior from 1927 to 1933. She also was Mother Superior in the Convent at New Roads, returning here in 1942 where she was Mother Superior for another three years. Mother retired from teaching about five years ago and had been in failing healtgh for some time.

Funeral services were held Monday, from the chapel of St. Joseph's Provincial House, 1200 Maribeau Avenue, with requiem mass Interment was in St. Louis No. 3 cemetery.

Source: unknown newspaper 05-28-1959

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