She entered St. Agnes Convent in August 1961. Among her many accomplishments, she is credited with the development of Marians Music Education Major and Minor. There she served as the sacristan for daily Masses, crocheted colorful scrubbies for craft sales, and accompanied sisters who were sick or near death. Throughout her life Sister pursued further education to enhance and broaden her professional preparation. Sister began her many years in ministry as an elementary teacher at Sts. Patricia was born in Lomira, Wisconsin, on December 17, 1937, the daughter of George Nicholaus Reiser and Genevieve Johannah Seiler Reiser. In 2019, Sister Mary Christopher became a resident at Nazareth Court and Center. At that time, Jesse was placed under the care of a state appointed guardian; however, Sister Nancy remained close to Jesse. She began by serving as a head nurse and night supervisor at St. Agnes Hospital, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Sister was also a member of the Marian College education department faculty for two years. To her surprise, Mother Angeline invited her to enter the community the following week. Give a donation in honor ofSister Annette Herr. Sister Lillian then served in the congregations mission in So Paulo, Brazil for three years. In 2014, due to health concerns, Sister M. Dolorita moved to Westminster Place, Presbyterian SeniorCare, Oakmont PA, where she continued to spread Gods love and offered counseling and consolation. Drawn by news that missionary sisters had arrived in 1945 to serve on Nicaraguas Atlantic Coast, she was one of the first two Nicaraguan women to join the pioneer community of Sisters of St. Agnes at Waspam in June 1948. A Mass of Christian Burial will take place on Tuesday, January 18, 2022, at 2:00 p.m. at St. Francis Home Chapel, 33 Everett Street, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Nancy was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on May 14, 1934, the daughter of Milbert Funk and Lucille Zangl Funk. Her family included one boy and seven girls. Visitation will be held at Nazareth Court and Center, 375 Gillett Street, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin from 9:00 -11:00 am and from 12:00 -1:30 pm on Wednesday, July 7, 2021. She also served the congregation as directress of postulants, vicar general of the congregation for eight years, and regional coordinator for eight years. In 1986, she ministered as a pastoral associate at St. Marys Catholic Church in Smith Center, Kansas. One of eight children, two boys and six girls, Joan grew up on her family farm near Lamartine, Wisconsin. Francis Home and Hospice Hope for their care of Sister Ruth Ann during her final years of life. She made her profession of vows in the Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes as Sister Paul on August 15, 1943, in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. In 1993, Sister Donna retired from teaching. Francis Home for their care of Sister Thomas Ann in her last years. Sister Cecelia Schlaefer, CSA, formerly Sister Paul, died peacefully August 17, 2021, at St. Francis Home, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. She was the eighth child in a family of twelve, including eight girls and four boys. Terms of Service apply. She joined the staff of Marian College in 1971 and was an elementary school counselor for the Fond du Lac Area Catholic Schools. Preceding Sister Annette in death are her parents George Herr and Amalia Rammer Herr and her brother Richard Herr. 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. Mary, the daughter of Joseph and Helen Kotel, was born on January 29, 1927, in Marquette, Michigan. 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. A prayer service will be held at 11:00 a.m. in the Center Chapel. In retirement Sister Martina found opportunities to volunteer her service and presence, including: St. Clare Terrace reception desk and Beacon House in Fond du Lac; Mary Elizabeth Maternity Home and the Community Assistance Center, Hays, Kansas. Sister Marita earned a Bachelors degree in Education from Mt. Mary was born July 4, 1936, in Decatur, Indiana, the daughter of Otto Andrew Miller and Rose J. Spangler Miller. She would often donate her work to groups that raised funds for charitable causes. In retirement, Sister Miriam served as the Receptionist Coordinator at Pittsburgh Motherhouse for 9 years. A Prayer Service will be held on Friday, July 16, 2021, at 11:00 a.m., in Nazareth Center Chapel. Sister Mary Louise Pfannenstiel, CSA, formerly known as Sister Theodore, died unexpectedly and peacefully February 1, 2022, at St. Agnes Hospital, Fond du Lac, WI. Memorials can be directed to the Sisters of St. Agnes Development Office, 320 County Road K, Fond du Lac, WI 54937. Her study of Spanish in Coahuila, Mexico, enabled her to minister among the Spanish community at St. Louis and St. Patricks Parish in Fond du Lac. She made her first profession of vows in the Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes as Sister Collean on August 15, 1946, in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Sister Judith Schmidt, CSA, baptized Gladys Joan, died peacefully September 10, 2021, at St. Francis Home, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. She achieved her goal, becoming a lifelong learner and educator. Because of current COVID-19 restrictions, a Memorial Mass will be held in private services at Nazareth Court and Center, Fond du Lac, WI, with Father Ken Smits, Capuchin, presiding. She was also Assistant Principal at St. Henry School, Fort Wayne, IN for six years. The burial will follow at St. Joseph Springs Cemetery. DownloadSister RebeccaEndres'obituary. A Memorial Mass for Sister Nancy will be held Tuesday, October 18, 2022, at 2:00 p.m. in St. Francis Home Chapel, 33 Everett Street, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, with Tom Zelinski, OFM Cap., presiding. After graduating from Decatur Catholic High School in 1944, Mary Agnes entered the Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Sister Gonzaga was preceded in death by her parents Lloyd Hron and Florence Gonnering Hron, her brother Lloyd, Jr., and her brother-in-law Ronald Ruplinger. She taught primary grades for twenty-nine years in Wisconsin, Kansas, and Illinois. A prayer service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on February 2, 2023, in the Nazareth Center Chapel. Give a donation in honorofSister Ann Walters. Sister Marita spent six years teaching junior high students at St. Gabriel of the Sorrowful Virgin before serving as principal there for the next seven years. She later was a clinical social worker for three years and director of materials management for six years at St. Agnes Hospital. Sister was a homemaker in CSA convents for 23 years in Kansas, Indiana, Wisconsin, and New York. She will also be remembered for her devotion to Blessed Solanus Casey, a Capuchin Franciscan priest who ministered in Yonkers, NY, and is being considered for canonization by the Catholic Church for his life of service and his gifts of healing and prophecy. Cremation has taken place. Give a donation in honorofSister Agnes Kircher. Permission to reprint, podcast, and/or stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-703845. The Congregation's headquarters are located at Assisi Heights in Rochester, Minnesota. Sister joined the community of sisters living at Nazareth Court and Center in January 2013, again offering assistance with financial matters. in Education from Marian College in August of 1961. A Prayer Service will be held on April 19, 2018, at 11:00 a.m. in Nazareth Center Chapel, 375 Gillett Street, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Sister received a BS in Elementary Education, with a major in social studies, from Marian College of Fond du Lac in 1962. Give a donation in honorofSister Colombiere Revelant. Descarga la obituario en espaol. Perhaps the most challenging position, as well as a greatly rewarding one for Sister, was assuming principalship of St. Joseph Elementary School in Chicago in 1988. She joined the sister residents at Nazareth Court and Center in 2017, living there until shortly before her death. A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered for Sister Mary at 2:00 pm on Thursday, February 3, 2022, at St. Francis Home Chapel, 33 Everett Street, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. There were three siblings: Robert, Barbara, and Kathleen. Anyone who knew Sister Nancy knew about Jesse and their love for each other. A Memorial Mass for Sister Caryl will be held Monday, November 22, 2021, at 2:00 p.m. in St. Francis Home Chapel, 33 Everett Street, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, with Father Kenneth Smits, Capuchin, presiding. Download Sister Clare Marie Conrad's bio. The Sisters of St. Agnes are grateful to the nurses and staff of Nazareth Court and Center/St. In December of 2016, due to frail health, Sister Suzanne joined the community of CSA sisters at Nazareth Court and Center in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. She volunteered countless hours entertaining in several retirement homes and care centers bringing joy and laughter with her exuberant, commanding presence and wide range of musical ability. While she completed high school at Immaculate Conception High School, Elmhurst, IL, Mary Therese helped her father raise her siblings. She loved to dabble in genealogy, poetry, and sports. A Mass of Christian Burial was offered at 2:00 p.m., November 23, 2022, at St. Francis Home Chapel, 33 Everett Street, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, with Tom Zelinski, OFM Cap., presiding. Pittsburgh, PA 15236 (412) 882-9911. info@osfprov.org. 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 Monday, June 28, 2021. Father Kenneth Smits, Capuchin, will preside at the Liturgy of Christian Burial at St. Francis Home, 33 Everett Street. A licensed secondary school teacher, Sister Gonzaga taught for 10 years at St. Mary Springs High School, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin; Beloit Catholic High School, Beloit, Wisconsin; and Immaculate Conception High School, Elmhurst, Illinois. 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. This experience influenced her desire to become a nurse. Father Ken Smits, Capuchin, will preside. Burial will follow at St. Joseph Springs Cemetery, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. 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. Visitation: The Sisters of St. Agnes and the Mollison family will receive those who wish to pay their respects on Monday, July 10, 2017, at Holy Family Catholic Church, 271 Fourth Street Way, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, beginning at 2:00 p.m. until the time of service. After graduation in 1951, she continued her preparation for religious life and received the religious name, Sister Janice. Emma entered St. Agnes Convent in 1938 and, as Sister Marie, made her profession of vows in the Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes on August 15, 1943. Sister Barbara had the joy of being the President of the Franciscan Child Day Care Center from 2001-2017. She continued to reside in Montgomery and served as she could in various religious formation programs of St. Jude Parish in the City of St. Jude before retiring to Nazareth Center in 2004. Sister Rachels seventy-eight years of ministry in the congregation included over thirty years as an elementary teacher and principal in Wisconsin, New York, and Indiana, and as a high school religion teacher at Marian High School in Hays, Kansas. Mary Agnes was born in Hays, Kansas, on July 19, 1923, to Joseph Doerfler and Agnes Staab Doerfler. Descarga en espaol. Burial will follow at St. Joseph Springs Cemetery. DownloadSister Deborah Walter'obituaryas a PDF. She is survived by her sisters Sheila (Richard) Whiting, Monica (Leo) Lettow and Ann Ruplinger; her nieces, nephews and their families; many friends and the Sisters of St Agnes with whom she lived, prayed and ministered. She ministered as a cook, laundress, and homemaker at St. Agnes Convent, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, St. Anthony Hospital in Hays, Kansas, St. Marys Parish Convent in Lomira, Wisconsin, St. Marys Springs Academy and St. Joseph Springs Farm, both in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Having graduated from high school in Muncie, Indiana, in 1942, Mary entered St. Agnes Convent in Fond du Lac. She had four sisters and six brothers. Download Sister Suzanne Kotel's obituaryas a PDF. She had 3 brothers and 3 sisters. Sister Michaela was preceded in death by her parents James H. OBrien and Estelle Stack OBrien; her brothers Thomas OBrien and James OBrien; and her sisters Florence Flood, Helen Gellings, and Alice Michels. Sister Joan of Arc served as a catechist at Transfiguration Parish in Maspeth, NY, where in her own words, it was her most memorable assignment, being a part of the parish and allowing me to be involved in all aspects of parish life. Sister is a graduate of Duquesne University, with a Bachelors and Masters degree in Education. Peter and Paul School, Hortonville, WI; St. Joseph School, Hays, Kansas; St. Louis and St. Patrick School, Fond du Lac, WI; and St. Agnes School, Butler, WI. She was received with the name Sister Mary Martinella on August 10, 1959 and made her final . She entered the Sisters of St. Francis in Dubuque from St. Mary on September 3, 1958. Give a donation in honor ofSister Paul Ann Dinkel. She attended one year of high school in Altoona, then entered St. Agnes Convent, Fond du Lac, in 1934; she received her diploma from St. Agnes High School. Memorials can be directed to the Sisters of St. Agnes Mission Advancement Office, 320 County Road K, Fond du Lac, WI 54937. Francis Home and Hospice Hope for their care of Sister Mary Lee in her last years. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff) After graduation from Messmer High School in Milwaukee in 1964, Mary chose to enter St. Agnes Convent in Fond du Lac . She taught special education students in Decatur, Indiana, before reentering St. Agnes Convent in 1970. Sister kept up-todate professionally through numerous post-graduate courses. She worked for one year in St. Augustine Parish, Tucson, Arizona, then accepted the position of Consultant for Religious Education in the schools and parish catechetical programs of the Diocese of Joliet, IL., for six years. Father Ken Smits, Capuchin, will be the presider. A private Mass of Christian Burial for Sister Bertha Ann will be held on April 7, 2021, in the Nazareth Center Chapel, 375 Gillett Street, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, with Father Ken Smits, Capuchin, presiding. She completed her ministry at Marian in the role of College Health Nurse. From 1980-1982, she served as Associate Superintendent of the Fort Wayne-South diocesan schools. Obituaries for many members of the School Sisters of St. Francis are available online through this listing, but it does not include all Sisters who have been part of our community over more than a century of service in the United States. For seventeen years, Sister Barbara was part of the Leadership Team for her community. Descarga en espaol. Downloadthe prayer service booklet as a PDF. Carol Gertrude began her love affair with life as she described it, on February 14, 1927. Sister Rita Little, CSA, formerly Sister Mary Robert, died peacefully August 29, 2018, at St. Francis Home, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Sister Agnes Kircher, CSA, formerly known as Sister Joseph Gerard, died peacefully on October 5, 2017, at Nazareth Center, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Mary had eight brothers and three sisters, all of whom preceded her in death. In 1971, she earned her MA in Education, with an emphasis on Administration, from Mary Manse College, Toledo, Ohio, qualifying her to serve as principal at SS. In 2004, Sister Mary Martha moved to Nazareth Court and Center where she resided until the time of her death. Father Ken Smits, Capuchin, will be the presider. Give a donation in honor ofSisterMartina Kuhn. Find an obituary, get service details, leave condolence messages or send flowers or gifts in memory of a loved one. Sister Mary was preceded in death by her parents Edgar and Verna Hornung. Sister Marita is survived by her Sisters of St. Francis of the Providence of God, nieces, nephews, and cousins, her good friend Virginia Stanziola and her many other friends and correspondents. She is survived by her sister Florence Dwyer and the Sisters of St. Agnes, with whom she lived, prayed and ministered. Rita was born in West Allis, Wisconsin, on September 5, 1926, to Robert J. From our life in community we are sent to extend the mission of Jesus through our presence and service. Family and friends will be received at John F. Slater Funeral Home, 4201 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh PA 15227 on Wednesday, November 9, 2022, 5:00 7:00 PM, with prayer service at 6:00 PM. Sister Mary Alice spent her final years in active ministry at St. Stephens Parish in Milwaukee from 2000-2013, beginning as a religion teacher then assuming the role of Coordinator of Religious Education. Mary Ellen was born in Eden, WI, on January 15, 1920, to James H. OBrien and Estelle Stack OBrien. A private Memorial Mass will be held on January 12, 2021, in the Nazareth Center Chapel, 375 Gillett Street, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, with Father Kenneth Smits, Capuchin, presiding. In 1972, Sister received a Nursing Home Administration License from the Fox Valley Technical Institute of Appleton, Wisconsin. There, she received loving care until the time of her death. Descarga en espaol. in Nursing from Marian College in 1956. Among her companions at the Nazareth campus, she generously contributed her talents as a seamstress and her gift of hospitality. Throughout her life, she continued to take post-graduate courses in theology. Having graduated in 1947 from St. Fidelis High School, Victoria, Kansas, she entered St. Agnes Convent in January 1949. Rose Kreuzer was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on April 24, 1922, to Joseph H. Kreuzer and Rose L. Stromberg Kreuzer. in Education from Marian College of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Emma Endres was born in Waunakee, Wisconsin, on October 26, 1923, to Aloysius Leo Endres and Monica Schwab Endres. Stephania was born in West Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on December 21, 1914, to Ferdinand Revelant and Domenica Valente Revelant. Sisters early ministry was as an elementary school teacher in and around the Pittsburgh region, including Moon Run, Bethel Park, New Kensington, and West Mifflin. Sister Mary Hornung, CSA, baptized Marilyn Hornung, died peacefully January 25, 2019, at St. Francis Home in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. We give thanks to God for Sisters life, her gentle spirit, and her unique way of manifesting the goodness of God. On a lighter side, Sister Rose was a devoted fan of her sports teams, the Kansas University Jayhawks, the Kansas City Chiefs and the St. Louis Cardinals.