Spokane, Washington
02/04/1939 - 01/05/2013
Sister Mary Garvin (Kathleen Mary), SNJM Mary Katherine Garvin was born in Spokane, Washington on February 4, 1939, the first of five children born to Catherine McGowan Garvin and Wilmot Garvin. She was raised in Spokane, spending many summers at the family home in McGowan on the Washington...
Read MoreSister Mary made GU and Spokane feel like home. Thank you for your kindness and for being a strong, positive female figure in my life.
Marites Fiesta
January 15, 2013
Sister Mary was my advisor while I was at Gonzaga. She was always very helpful and supportive and I always looked forward to those semester check-ins during her office hours. I'll forever be grateful for her kindness and support, and I will miss her very much.
Shannon Kestell
January 14, 2013 | Spokane, WA
Our condolences to the Holy Names community in this loss. Edie Rice-Sauer, Transitions
January 14, 2013
Mary and I used to play together on the beach in Chinook when she visited her Grandmother McGowan in the summer. We kept up our friendship through the years. She was a wonderful person.
Susan Hall
January 10, 2013 | Yuma, AZ
Etue/LA Marathon
Just this past December 2012 a small group of HNA graduates from the class of 1968 gathered at a restaurant in Seattle and spoke fondly of Sister Mary Garvin and the lasting impact she had on our lives, some 44 years later! She was our High School Drama teacher at Holy Names and what an amazing teacher! She was barely ten years older than her students but her energy, passion and creative drive were enough to keep me involved in the arts my whole life. There were other teachers, both at HNA...
Anne Etue
January 10, 2013 | Los Angeles, CA
Sister was a shining example of the love of Christ, and who we as women should strive to be as we walk on our faith journey. She was not only my college advisor and friend, but she was my mother's. Two generations of my family were blessed to have known such an amazing woman.
Charlotte Brusseau
January 10, 2013
Another great SNJM Saint in Heaven! We will miss you Mary!
Susan Wells, SNJM
January 09, 2013 | Oakland, CA
Mary was a blessing and an influence on all who knew her. She will be greatly missed.
Judy Sweeney
January 09, 2013 | Richland, WA
What a wonderful person this lady was. I will long remember her calm,patient, loving, and caring personality. She did much for everyone she touched.
Doris Lee
January 09, 2013 | Spokane Valley, WA