Obituaries of OCTOBER 1983 Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, La.

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Submitted by: Chris Tidwell
Source: Lafourche Comet Newspaper - Lafourche Parish, La.
Oct 25, 1983

Mount Carmel principal dies

[Sister Mary Immaculata Garcia]

Funeral services were held Monday at the Mount Carmel Motherhouse, New
Orleans, for Sister Mary Immaculata Garcia, O. Carm., former principal
of Mount Carmel High School in Thibodaux and educator in schools
conducted by the Sisters of Mount Cannel, who died Friday there. She was
72. Sister Immaculata served as principal of Mount Carmel in Thibodaux
from 1946 & 55 and helped direct the efforts to building Mount Carmel's
gym, the first gym built in Lafourche Parish. A native of New Orleans
and graduate of Mount Carmel Academy, she was the former Jeanne Garcia.
She entered the congregation in 1926, made her religious profession in
1929 and pronounced her perpetual vows in 1932. She received her
bachelor's degree in math from Loyola University in New Orleans in 1939
and her master's degree in math from Catholic University in Washington,
D.C. in 1949. Besides Thibodaux, Sister Immaculata served as principal
of St. Augustine in New Orleans, Mount Carmel in New Iberia, Mount
Carmel in Lafayette, Mount Carmel in Abbeville and St. Euhprasia in
Granada Hills, Calif. She also worked in the intercommunity house of
social work in the St. Thomas Project in New Orleans. She was the
treasurer general of the Sisters of Mount Carmel from .1955-61 and a
member of the general council from 1973-77. She also served 22 years as
local superior in several convents in her community. She is survived by
four sisters, Mrs. John Bork, Mrs. Evelyn Gallagher, Mrs. J.U. Vinson
and Mrs. Martin Schild, and two brothers, Lloyd Garcia and Dr. Eugene
Garcia.