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Diamond Jubilee portrait of Sister Olivia Schaefer, O.S.B., August 6, 1994. Sister Olivia turned 81 on September 21, 1994.
"Elsie Elizabeth Schaefer was born in Chicago on September 21, 1913. ... At age eighteen, on September 7, 1932, Elsie joined the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago at St. Scholastic Monasatery. The following summer, on July 11, 1933, she received the habit and was given the name Sister Olivia. She professed her triennial vows in...
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First Communion class of June 29, 1958, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Catholic Church. Sister Innocence (L) and Sister Robert (R) flank acolytes at the back of the group.
"The nuns came from Canon City in the summer to teach Vacation Bible School to our children. They prepared them for 1st Holy Communion and Confirmation. The nuns stayed in Minturn. The ladies of the Altar Rosary Society in Red Cliff drove to Minturn in the morning to pick up the nuns...