
On August 1, 1912 a group of sisters arrived to prepare the facility to receive children. These included Sister Mary Scholastica (Superior), Sister Mary Anthony, Sister Mary Raphael, Sister Mary Ambrose (Of the Sisters of Mercy in Oklahoma City).
Saint Joseph's Industrial School and Orphanage, and later Home for the Aged, Bethany, Oklahoma.
It opened in 1912 and by the time it closed in the 1965 several thousand children, and aged, had been cared for by the facility.
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