Despite secretly suffering from painful arthritis, she tirelessly walked the city streets distributing literature from the Sacred Heart League to Catholics and non-Catholics alike.

She pulled a red wagon through the streets of Denver in the dark to bring food, coal, clothing, and groceries to needy families.

She made her rounds after dark so as not to embarrass white families ashamed to accept charity from a poor, black woman.

[2][4] Greeley died on June 7, 1918, and lay in repose in Loyola Chapel – a first for a Catholic layperson in Denver that has not been repeated.

Her body was moved to Denver's Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in 2017, making her the first person to be interred there since it opened in 1912.