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She then organized, initiated, and expanded the Occupational Therapy Department at St. Agnes Hospital while at the same time working as a nurse therapist and in rehab at Nazareth Heights Infirmary, the retirement center for the Sisters of St. Agnes. She then taught at St. Marys School in Fond du Lac for two years. Please check in for the Visitation and Prayer Service at the 375 Gillett Street entrance only. She made profession of vows in the Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes as Sister Margaretta on August 15, 1945. Regular mission trips to the villages along the Coco River always held a special place in Sisters heart. Sister Deborah earned a B.S. In 1993, Sister Donna retired from teaching. Give a donation in honor ofSister Paul Ann Dinkel. Visitation for Sister Thomas Ann will be on October 30, 2017, beginning at 9:00 a.m. at Nazareth Court and Center, 375 Gillett Street, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, followed by a prayer service at 11:00 a.m. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 2:00 p.m. on October 30, 2017, in St. Francis Home Chapel, 33 Everett Street, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Additional services will be held in Kansas at a date to be determined with burial following in a family plot in Hays. The Sisters of St. Agnes are grateful to the nurses and staff of Nazareth Court and Center and Hospice Hope for their care of Sister Mary Albert in her last years. In those settings, she worked as part of a team of other sisters to provide dietary services not only for the sisters there but also for students, patients and residents of the respective institutions a demanding challenge which she accepted in a spirit of loving service. Marilyn entered St. Agnes Convent in 1953 and attended St. Agnes High School, receiving a diploma in 1955. O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love. One of eight children, two boys and six girls, Joan grew up on her family farm near Lamartine, Wisconsin. Sister Clare was preceded in death by her parents John and Agnes Haman, her brothers Paul Haman, John Haman and Charles Haman; her sisters Louise Akers, Mary Peters, and Dorothy Maher. In 1955, she attended St. Agnes School of Nursing in Fond du Lac and one year later entered St. Agnes Convent in Fond du Lac. She is survived by her brother Thomas; her sisters Catherine Perino, Nettie Kuhn-Berdi and Sister Ann Walters, CSA; her nieces and nephews; and the Sisters of St. Agnes, with whom she lived, prayed and ministered. Other assignments included schools in Detroit and Grand Rapids, MI, Kenosha, WI, and Mahanoy City, PA., On October 4, 1992 (appropriately the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi), Sister Michele went back to her native country, joining Sister Dolorita Butkus as the first of our Sisters to return to Lithuania since the late 1930s, to serve its people. Sister Rita Kramer, CSA, formerly Sister Sara, died peacefully January 26, at St. Francis Home, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 2:00 p.m. on November 28 in St. Francis Home Chapel, 33 Everett Street, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. She grew up in the city of Decatur with her three brothers and two sisters. She spent her last years in active ministry serving as a pastoral associate at Sacred Heart Parish in Colby, Kansas, and as a volunteer among the elderly offering a ministry of care and presence through her arts and crafts projects, her advocacy efforts, her caregiver relief services and by being a telephone companion for the elderly who lived alone or had no family. Give a donation in honorofSister Mary Mollison. Father Ken Smits, Capuchin, will be the presider. She was teacher and principal at St. Ignatius School, Houghton, Michigan; St. Zachary School, Des Plaines, Illinois; and St. Patricks School, Hudson, Wisconsin. Sister Dolores (Eugene) McAllister, OSF, died Saturday, July 17, 2021 at the age of 96. and M.A. Descarga en espaol. She taught for nineteen years in grade schools and high schools in Wisconsin, Kansas, Illinois, and Indiana. Having completed two years at West Milwaukee High School, in August 1931 Stephania entered the Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes from her home parish of St. Florian. For the first twenty-six years of her religious life, Sister Loretta served her CSA sisters as a homemaker and laundress on mission sites in Wisconsin, Kansas, Minnesota, and Ohio; worked at St. Clare Hospital, Monroe, Wisconsin, with food services; cared for the young boys and later the older girls at Holy Family Orphanage in Marquette, Michigan. Cremation took place following the service. Mary Agnes was born in Decatur, Indiana, on January 21, 1926, to Peter C. Miller and Anna Bertha Gase Miller. Visitation for Sister Teresita Inswill be held at Nazareth Court and Center, 375 Gillett Street, Fond duLac, Wisconsin, on Thursday, September 27, beginning at 9:00 a.m., followed by a Prayer Service at 11:00 a.m. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 27, 2018, at St. Francis Home Chapel, 33 Everett Street, Fond d Lac, Wisconsin. In 1988, Sister joined the faculty of Marian College of Fond du Lac working as a counselor in the Student Life Program. Sister furthered her education at Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, earning an MA in Education and Psychology in 1946, and a PhD in Education in 1950. Sister is survived by her sister-in-law, Carol Feldbruegge; her two stepsisters, Elizabeth Seymour and Susan(Chuck) Swanson; her stepsister-in-law, Diane Seymour; several nieces and nephews and their families; her beloved cousin, Susan Rank, and the Sisters of St. Agnes, with whom she lived, prayed, and ministered. She received a BS in Education from Marian College of Fond du Lac and taught in elementary schools for 37 years in Wisconsin, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New York. She completed her ministry at Marian in the role of College Health Nurse. During more than twenty-five years at Christian Brothers University, Memphis, Tennessee, where she served as Chair of the Religion and Philosophy Department from 1991-1994, Sister Ann taught courses in scripture, religious history, Christian spirituality, science and religion, and world religions. Upon returning to the United States, she took time apart from CSA and taught bilingual education for nine years in the Milwaukee public school system. Her mother, a lay Franciscan, was especially influential in her decision to pursue a religious vocation. During this time, she also volunteered at St. Johns Parish in St. John, Wisconsin, and Sacred Heart Parish in Sherwood, Wisconsin. Margaret Ann McKean was born in Adams County, Indiana, on August 1, 1935, to Millard McKean and Margaret Robinson McKean. She taught business classes in secondary schools for 34 years in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and New York. Joanne attended St. Johns Elementary School in Waunakee, staffed by the Sisters of St. Agnes. Sister Caryl returned to Fond du Lac in 2000 to work first as an employed nurse and then a volunteer CNA at Hospice Home of Hope. There she continued to serve the Hmong community and special needs children until her health became frail. Sister Lillian then served in the congregations mission in So Paulo, Brazil for three years. Remaining true to her Pittsburgh roots, Sister attended LaRoche College and Duquesne University, earning her Bachelors degree in Education. Burial will follow at St. Joseph Springs Cemetery, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Both of Lorettas parents died of cancer by the time she was ten years old. Patricia Ann was born in Watertown, New York, on April 17, 1949, the first of four children, three daughters and a son, born to James Ralph Campbell and Dolores Colin Campbell. Francis Home and Hospice Hope for their care of Sister Clare Marie in her last years. She made her profession of vows in the Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes as Sister Vincent on August 15, 1947, in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. She attended South Milwaukee High School for three years then, having moved, graduated from Menasha High in 1941. She became the administrator at St. Charles Borromeo School in Bensenville and ministered there for 22 years. The second half of Sisters ministry was devoted to pastoral service, including visiting the sick, leading prayer groups, and offering a caring presence to those in need. Beginning in 1972, she served as principal and administrator of schools in Wisconsin, including the Consolidated Parochial Elementary School (CPES), Marytown area, now known as Holyland Catholic School, and in rural Kansas. Her education began in a one-room schoolhouse in Marblehead and continued at St. Josephs 9th Grade and St. Marys Springs Academy, both in Fond du Lac. Mary Jane was born to Anton Wipperfurth and Christine Spahn Wipperfurth on August 30, 1927, in Waunakee, Wisconsin. Sister Ruth Ann was preceded in death by her parents George and Ruth Baudry; her sister Georgene (Gerard) Clair, her brother Alden (Arlene) Baudry and her niece, Sharon Baudry. Descarga en espaol. While she completed high school at Immaculate Conception High School, Elmhurst, IL, Mary Therese helped her father raise her siblings. Sister Teresita Inswas the last living member of her family. Sister Donna Marie Kleinsorge, CSA, formerly known as Sister Cornelius, died peacefully on May 13, 2022, at Nazareth Center in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. DownloadSisterMartina Kuhn's obituary. Sister Rose Andr received her BS in Elementary Education from Marian College, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, in 1962, and her MS in Education with an emphasis on the Montessori method of early childhood development from Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1980. On August 15, 1958, she made first profession of vows in the Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes as Sister David Gerard. Kathleen entered St. Agnes Convent in 1947. Our sisters who are celebrating 70 years of religious life. Descarga en espaol. DownloadSister Mary Louise Pfannenstiel's'obituaryas a PDF. In 1974, Sister received her M.S. A member of St. Marys Immaculate Conception Parish in Niles, she graduated from the parish elementary school in 1960. Sister Martha is survived by her brother Edmund Kretschmer, her sister Armella Rossmiller, her nieces and nephews, and the Sisters of St. Agnes with whom she lived, prayed and ministered. Sister Caryl Hartjes, CSA, formerly Sister Theodine, died peacefully October 31, 2021, at Nazareth Center, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Online Familieberichten is a Dutch website of family announcements from the national newspapers including death announcements, prayer cards and funeral notices, that are updated daily by a team of volunteers.<br><br> This experience led her to pursue a Certificate of Theological Studies and Spirituality from the Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley, California, and an MS in Pastoral Counseling from Loyola of Maryland, Baltimore, after which she did retreat ministry at Franciscan Spirituality Center, La Crosse, Wisconsin. Father Ken Smits, Capuchin, will preside. Sister Rita was born on August 12, 1928 in Early, Iowa to Elizabeth (Faber) and Leo Jansen. A prayer service will follow at 11:00 a.m. A Mass of Christian Burial will take place at 2:00 p.m., on December 4, 2018, at St. Francis Home Chapel, 33 Everett Street, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Rose graduated from Messmer High School, Milwaukee. Burial will be in St. Joseph Springs Cemetery, Fond du Lac, WI. The Sisters of St. Agnes are grateful to the nurses and staff of Nazareth Court and Center, St. Francis Home, and Hospice Hope for their devoted care of Sister Joan. Download Sister Mary Neff's obituary. Sister Vivian is survived by her brothers Robert Schmidtberger and Marvin Schmidtberger; her sisters Albertine Foos, Edna Ptacek and Rosalyn Leiker, and the Sisters of St. Agnes, with whom she lived, prayed and ministered. Mercy College (now Carlow University) and a Masters degree in Education at Duquesne University. Sister Barbara was born in Amherst, Ohio on January 30, 1938 and attended St. Joseph Elementary School, Amherst, Ohio and St. Marys High School in Lorain, Ohio. Descarga en espaol. In Loving Memory In memory of the Sisters of St. Francis, with appreciation for the faith, sacrifice and joy they shared with generations of Catholics in the Diocese of Syracuse and beyond Prayer of St. Francis Lord, make me an instrument of your peace: where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. In 1987, she was appointed the first Vice President of Development for Marian, a position she held for ten years. She grew up in a farm family of fifteen, 10 boys and five girls. Privacy Policy and Burial will be at St. Joseph Springs Cemetery, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, at a later date. She played an active part in college and community organizations. In 2019, Sister Mary Christopher became a resident at Nazareth Court and Center. This synodal process is, as it were, the . Zacherl Funeral Home is serving the Congregation of St. Agnes. Sister Mary Christopher had a contemplative spirit which she expressed through her poetry and storytelling. In the fall of 1986, she joined the education department at Marian College of Fond du Lac, guiding student teachers and assisting with the evening adult education programs. Sister Barbara had the joy of being the President of the Franciscan Child Day Care Center from 2001-2017. Sister served as librarian for two years at St. Marys School, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. She joined the sister residents at Nazareth Court and Center in 2017, living there until shortly before her death. Memorials can be directed to the Sisters of St. Agnes Development Office, 320 County Road K, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin 54937. Visitation will be held at Nazareth Court and Center, 375 Gillett Street, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, from 9:00-11:00 a.m. and from 12:00 -1:30 p.m. on November 18, 2021. Throughout her life in active ministry, Sister Elizabeth Ann served as a teacher, principal, and director of religious education programs for children and adults. Her love for life, for her CSA sisters, for her family and friends, for the wheat fields, for the smell of the land and for all creation remained strong as did her special hobbies of cooking, baking, and cheering on the Green Bay Packers. Descarga la obituario en espaol, Give a donation in honorofSister Deborah Walter. Sister Mary Alice also served on several school boards, nonprofit boards, and educational committees including St. Marys Springs High School Board of Directors, Fond du Lac; the Milwaukee Archdiocesan Review Board for Accreditation; and as chairperson of the HOPE Committee (Helping Others Promote Education) a CSA initiative that awarded grants to disadvantaged schools and religious education programs for teacher certification and educational materials. The Sisters of St. Agnes are grateful to the nurses and staff of Nazareth Court and Center, St. Francis Home, and Hospice Hope for their care of Sister Nancy. Giving to charity is a meaningful way to honor someone who has died. Sister Vivian taught in elementary schools in Indiana and Wisconsin before serving from 1960-1970 as a missionary in Managua, Puerto Cabezas, Rosita and Waspam, Nicaragua, as well as in Quito, Ecuador. During her many years serving at St. Agnes Convent, Sister Suzanne would be seen driving her station wagon around Fond du Lac early in the morning to pick up day-old bread from local grocery stores to deliver to individuals in need and organizations serving the poor. Mary Jean Mollison was born November 2, 1946, in Niles, Michigan, the fourth child and only daughter of Andrew R. and Eva Blatz Mollison. She helped teachers and tutored students in the school; visited the sick; phoned the elderly of the parish; assisted at St. Florians Fund Raisers; enjoyed the company in the 59ers Club with other senior parishioners; and acted as Eucharistic Minister and Lector during the Eucharistic Liturgies. Descarga en espaol. After graduation from high school in 1952, Gladys entered St. Agnes Convent. Sister Lillian entered the congregation in 1954 and earned Bachelors and Masters degrees in Education from Duquesne University. The Liturgy of Christian Burial for Sister Beata will be held on Friday, July 16, 2021, at St. Francis Home, 33 Everett Street, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, with Father Kenneth Smits, Capuchin, presiding. Among her companions at the Nazareth campus, she generously contributed her talents as a seamstress and her gift of hospitality. Victoria continued her religious formation at St. Agnes Convent in Fond duLac, WI, from 1949-1951. She was the loving wife of Robert William Crowley for sixty-seven View full obituary . Sister Grace Ann was preceded in death by her parents, Herman and Grace; her stepmother, Evie; her brothers, Gerald, Dennis, Duane, and Robert; her sisters, Betty (Kenneth) Sallee and Sarah Krenzien; her stepbrother, Alan Seymour. Her commitment to the mission of the Sisters of St. Agnes and her academic and professional studies guided her as an educator, counselor, pastoral minister, diocesan consultant, and executive leader throughout her fifty-two years as a vowed woman religious. Thomas Raymond "Fitzy" Fitzgerald. The Sisters of St. Agnes are grateful to the nurses and staff of Nazareth Court and Center, St. Francis Home, and Hospice Hope for their care of Sister Rachel. In 1959, after her first year of college, Donna made the decision to enter St. Agnes Convent. A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered for Sister Collean at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 14, 2022, at St. Francis Home Chapel, 33 Everett Street, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, with Tom Zelinski, OFM, Cap., presiding. There she enjoyed using her many artistic and creative talents, especially quilting and decorating, to enhance the life of the Sisters, staff, and visitors. Sister Dorothy M. Smith, 86, teacher and administrator for Sisters of St. Francis. The five sisters currently living at the parish are moving to new residents in Lutherville. The Sisters of St. Agnes are grateful to the nurses and staff of Nazareth Court and Center, St. Francis Home, and Hospice Hope for their care of Sister Dolores during her final years. A Mass of Christian Burial is scheduled for April 12, 2018, at 9:45 a.m., at St. Francis Home Chapel, 33 Everett Street, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. She attended Marian College during her years of religious formation, studying theology, English, math and education. Sister Ann McKean, CSA, formerly Sister Corona, died peacefully at St. Agnes Hospital, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on April 11, 2020. DownloadSister Janice Funk's obituaryas a PDF. Returning to CSA community service in 1985, Sister Mary Christopher provided therapeutic services, foot care, and transportation for the elderly sisters at Nazareth Heights and at the new CSA retirement center, Nazareth Court and Center in Fond du Lac until 2008. She is survived by her brother Patrick OBrien, many devoted nieces and nephews, other relatives, friends, colleagues, and the Sisters of St. Agnes, with whom she lived, prayed and ministered. Francis Home for their care of Sister Rita in her last years and to the staff of Hospice Hope. The Sisters of St. Agnes are grateful to the nurses and staff of Nazareth Court and Center/St. Sister Elizabeth Ann received her B.S. Sister Rose was preceded in death by her parents Anthony and Lidwina Walters; her brothers Herbert, Delbert, Marvin, Daniel, Patrick; and her sister Dolores Giebler. Recalling this time, she wrote, Bless the Lord for all the good He has done for me.. She was both a teacher and principal at St. Joes School near Johnsburg, Wisconsin, and at St. Josephs School in Berlin, Wisconsin. Sister Mary was CSA Corporate Director of Sponsorship for eleven years. Visitation for Sister Rose will be December 4, 2017, at 9:00 a.m. in Nazareth Court and Center, 375 Gillett Street, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.

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