Eugenia Huppe was born on a farm near Cory, Kansas on April 15, 1884. Both parents were from Switzerland. She entered at Clyde on Sept. 29, 1906, following an older sister, Sister M. Laurentia, who had entered in 1900. She was invested on April 13, 1907 and professed on June 27, 1908, followed by perpetual vows on Feb. 4, 1917. She received Consecration of Virgins with the first group in 1952.

Sister became skilled in many crafts. She was a top-notch bookbinder, and for years had charge of the painting and building operations at Clyde. Trained under Father Lukas, she was a perfectionist and therefore exacting with others, Like her sister, she was zealous in helping four cousins who were missionary Benedictine monks in Africa, and two other missionary priests they 'adopted.’ Adept at soliciting, Sister acquired large quantities of rosaries, medals, scapulars, etc., which she sent to her missionaries; also many beautiful holy pictures, large and small, which she carefully mounted. Through funds solicited from relatives and friends, she was influential in having some forty mission chapels (at $100. each) built in Africa.

Sister was assigned to help for a time both in Kansas City and San Diego at the time of their foundation, to prepare a new throne for our Eucharistic Lord. She did exquisite work in gold-leafing. Sister was always a strong, hard-working, sacrificial person, but in her last years was afflicted with cancer, which confined her to the infirmary as it gradually consumed her life. During her final illness she literally wore a path to the adoration chapel, where she spent hours in prayer.  After much suffering, she died on May 30, 1964 at the age of eighty.