Virginia Margaret Hurley was born in Glasco, Kansas, on Jan. 9, 1917. She entered at Clyde on Sept. 8, 1937, and was invested on Apr. 30, 1938, and professed as Sister M. Jane Frances on Aug. 26, 1939. Her final vows were offered on Aug. 26, 1944. She was a cousin of Sister M. Elizabeth Krone.

Sister was a fervent religious, a kind, cheerful, lovable person, with a ready sense of humor, always ready to do a favor. She had charge of the bakery at Clyde for some years.  In 1944 she was sent to Tucson for her health, confined to bed and placed under the care of two prominent physicians. Though she physically improved over a period of months, the cough persisted and the doctors finally decided to operate. Sister was recovering nicely from the surgery and was about ready to return to the convent when a pulmonary embolism brought her life to a close in a matter of minutes, although there was time for a short anointing. The doctors and nurses at the hospital expressed their edification at Sister's sweet disposition and her patient endurance of severe suffering.

Sometime before her death, Sister saw in a dream her own name engraved on a tombstone beside that of Sister M. Nicola Loehle in the Holy Hope Cemetery in Tucson. Was it a premonition?  Her death occurred on December 3, 1948, in the thirty- first year of her age and the ninth of her religious profession. Later her remains were transferred to Clyde along with those of Sister M. Nicola when Mount Calvary cemetery was opened.