Mary Evelyn Duvall

Maple Mount Sister Mary Evelyn Duvall, 88, an Ursuline Sister of Mount Saint Joseph, died April 26 at Mount Saint Joseph, in her 70th year of religious life. She was a native of Sunfish, Ky.
Sister Mary Evelyn loved to travel, and was an excellent cook, seamstress, and craft maker. She was a teacher for 44 years, beginning at St. Lawrence School (1949-51), St. Anthony School in Browns Valley (1951-57), St. William School in Knottsville (1960-62), and St. Pius School, Owensboro (1970). She also ministered in the diet kitchen at Maple Mount (1944-46). She served elsewhere in the Diocese of Owensboro, the Archdiocese of Louisville, in Missouri, and for 34 years in New Mexico until retiring in 2007.
Survivors include four sisters, Catherine Duvall and Martha Durbin, both of Sunfish, Mary Davis, Leitchfield, and Frances Heath, Mountain Home, Idaho; two brothers, Lawrence Duvall of Louisville, and William Pius Duvall, Brownsville; nieces and nephews and the members of her religious community.
The funeral Mass will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Mount Saint Joseph, where visitation will begin Thursday at 4 p.m., with a wake service following at 6:30 p.m.
Glenn Funeral Home and Crematory, Owensboro, is in charge of arrangements.
Gifts in memory of Sister Mary Evelyn may take the form of donations to the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph, 8001 Cummings Road, Maple Mount, KY 42356.