Josephine Butz was born in Switzerland March 4, 1865. She became a postulant at Clyde on June 4, 1883 and was invested on September 14th of the same year. Her first profession of vows as Sister M. Gabriel was made on October 28, 1884, sealed by perpetual vows on November 21, 1889.

Being a quiet, soft-spoken person, of "few and sensible words," this admonition of St. Benedict was for her a natural observance. She was kind and gentle, very conscientious and dependable at work, which for many years consisted in helping in the packing room to fill orders for booklets and leaflets. She was an expert at making and repairing rosaries.

Sister was a prayerful person, and loved holy adoration. She was thin and frail most of her life, and was an invalid for some years before her death, which came on March 7, 1930 when she was sixty-five years old.