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Sister Marie Mark Yerkey, O.P.

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Sister Marie Mark Yerkey, O.P., who taught at Our Lady of Mercy School in the Bronx, died July 20 at St. Dominic Villa in Hazel Green, Wis. She was 86.

She taught at Our Lady of Mercy from 1955 to 1959. She also taught at schools in Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Born in Minneapolis, she professed first vows with the Sinsinawa Dominicans in 1945 and final vows in 1948. She held a bachelor’s degree in English from Rosary College, River Forest, Ill., and a master’s in English from Creighton University in Omaha, Neb.

A Funeral Mass was offered July 25 at Queen of the Rosary Chapel in Sinsinawa, Wis. Burial followed in the motherhouse cemetery.

Sister Marie Mark Yerkey, O.P.