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AUGUST 21, 1954.
EIGHT
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
SERVICES HELD. FOR EMILIE;
QUINTUPLET DEAD AT TWENTY
(N. C. W. C. News Service)
CORBEIL, Ont.—In the little
cemetery of Sacred Heart parish
here in this northern Ontario
town lies the body of Emilie
Dionne, 20-year-old Quintuplet,
who died suddenly at Ste. Aga
tha, Quebec.
Burial followed a solemn re-
queim Mass chanted in Sacred
Heart Church by Father W. H.
La France, parish priest. At side
altars, Masses weer offered up by
Father G. Sauve, O. M. I., of the
University of Ottawa, long a
friend of the family, and Father
M. Belanger, O. M. I., of Ottawa,
former chaplain of the Quintup
lets'. At the main, altar, Father
La jFrance was assisted by Father
V. Pilon of Mattawa, former par
ish priest of Corbeily and Father
W. Bradkey of River Valley, Ont.,
friend of the family.
Emilie was buried in a gray
steel and bronze casket. She was
dressed in her favorite powder-
blue frock with a lace collar and
had a white crucifix and rosary
clasped in her hands.
The four surviving Quintuplets
were attired in simple black
frocks.
A bushland setting of birch and
pine trees formed a background
for the simple little parish ceme
tery.
Among the many messages of
condolence received by the fam
ily was one from His Eminence
Francis Cardinal Spellman, whom
the Quintuplets had visited in
New York in 1950.
“Deeply grieved at Emilie’s
death,” Cardinal Spellman said.
“Regret inability to attend funer
al but offering Mass for her and
your religious consolation.”
Other expressions of condol
ence included those of Their Emi
nences Paul Emile Cardinal Le-
ger of Montreal and James C.
Cardinal McGuigan of Toronto,
and from Premier Leslie Frost
of Ontario.
From the Diligenti parents and
Quintuplets in Buenos Aires came
two messages of condolence, one
to the Dionne parents and one to
the four surviving Dionne quin
tuplet sisters. Although the Ca
nadian and South American
Quintuplets had never met they
had exchanged birthday and
Christmas messages. The Dili
genti quints are 11 years of age.
Burial of Emilie was in the
family plot where the parents of
both Mr. and Mrs. Oliva Dionne
also are interred. A brother of the
Quintuplets, Leo, who died as a
baby in 1930, is buried there too.
Of Emilie’s four grandparents
buried near her, only the two
grandfathers were alive when
Emilie and her four sisters were
born.
The parish not having an offi
cial grave digger, the grave for
Emilie was dug by Airne Marasse,
an uncle of the Quintuplets.
Among the callers at the
Dionne home was a sister of the
Quintuplets’ father, the Rev.
Sister Ste. Ange du Bon Secours,
who left a cloister in Hull, Que
bec, for the first time in 22 years
with a special dispensaion to at-
end he funeral.
. More han 5,000 persons visited
the Dionne home. The surviving
Quintuplets had met the body on
its arrival at the home and kept a
vigil until 2 o’clock Sunday morn
ing. Then they retired for a short
rest, returning at dawn. They re
mained near her casket until the
crowds were allowed in the house
when they retired to an upstairs
room. The Quints’ father stood
beside the casket and received
the condolence of the crowds. The
mother sat with women friends
near the door leading to the ve
randa. ,
There was no sermon or eulogy
at the funeral Mass. None was
needed. The very simplicity of
the requiem made it very touch
ing. The church was crowded to
the doors, for the most part by
friends and relatives. But there
were hundreds who had known
Emilie only through the publicity
which had attended the birth and
lives of the five world-famed sis
ters. But this was no gawking
crowd of merely curious persons.
The hundreds in and about the
church were united in a deep
sorrow, made the more poignant
because of the suddenness and
shock of her death.
There were few dry eyes in the
congregation as the casket was
escorted into the church with
four brothers and two brothers-
in-law as pallbearers. They were
Ernest, of Corbeil; Daniel, of To
ronto; Oliva, Jr., with the Royal
Canadian Air Force at St. Hubert,
Quebec, and Victor, at home; and
Maurice Girouard of Waterloo',
Que., and Thomas Callahan of
Espanola, Ont.
The parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Oliva Dionne; the four surviving
Quintuplets, Annette, Cecile, Ma
rie and Yvonne; three older sis
ters, Mrs. Maurice Girouard
(Rose-Marie) of Waterloo, Mrs.
Thomas Callahan (Therese) of Es
panola, and Pauline of Montreal;
and the youngest brother, Claude
of Corbeil, occupied seats near
the easket and it was apparent to
all how hard a blow they had suf
fered in the loss of Emilie.
After Mass, the cortege pro-
ceded to the parish cemetery, a
mile from the church and some
three miles from the Dionne
home.
Edward R. Shippey
Services Are Held
ATLANTA, Ga.—Funeral ser
vices for Mr. Edward R. Shippey
were conducted August 5 at Our
Lady of the Assumption Church,
the Rev. John Stapleton officiat
ing.
Surviving are his wife; daugh
ters, Hollice Shippey and Judith
Shippey; sons, Bruce Shippey and
Edward Shippey; mother, Mrs.
Winnifred Shippey, Staten Island,
N. Y.; brother, Mr. Francis Ship
pey, Mississippi.
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