SR Irene mccormack
Sr Irene McCormack was born in Kununoppin western Australia in 1938, she grew up on a farm near Trayning and in her youth was a avid soccer fan. She attended the sisters of St Joseph and boarded at Santa Maria college in Attadal western Australia.
When she was fifteen Irene wanted to be a religious sister and joined the sisters of St Joseph in 1957. For the next thirty years Irene worked as a teacher in Western Australia, Irene was a popular teacher and principal. A petite woman although feisty when she wanted to be.
On the 21st of May 1991 Sr Irene McCormack died in Peru at the age of 52.she was shot in the back of the head about six metres from the church door.