Sister Michaela (Mary Ann) Galles, OSF, died Sunday, February 25, 2024 at the age of 88. The Mass of Christian Burial will be held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. Monday, March 11, 2024. Masks are optional. Guests unable to attend may...
Sister Theresa (Rita Ann) Jungers, OSF, died Tuesday, January 16, 2024 at the age of 85. The Mass of Christian Burial will be held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. Monday, January 22, 2024. Masks are optional. Guests unable to attend...
Sister Clara (Natalie) Streng, died January 4, 2024, at Clare House, Dubuque. The Rite of Final Committal was held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, January 5, 2024, followed by burial at the Sisters of St. Francis natural...
Sister Edwardine Freking, OSF died Saturday, November 4, 2023 at the age of 94. The Rite of Final Committal was held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, November 6, 2023 followed by burial at the Sisters of St. Francis natural...
Sister Jane (Victor) Hosch, OSF, died Monday, September 4, 2023 at the age of 89. The Mass of Christian Burial will be held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. Friday, September 8, 2023. Masks are optional. Guests unable to attend may...
Sister Madonna (Edward Mary) Lang, OSF died Friday, August 25, 2023 at the age of 85. The Rite of Final Committal will be held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, August 28, 2023 followed by burial at the Sisters of St. Francis...
Sister Ella (Mildred) Groetken, OSF, died Saturday, July 15 at the age of 88. The Mass of Christian Burial will be at Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, July 18, 2023 followed by burial at the Sisters of St. Francis natural burial...
Sister Beverly (Owen) Eichler, OSF, died Wednesday, June 21, 2023 at the age of 90. The Mass of Christian Burial will be held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. Monday, June 26, 2023. Masks are optional. Guests unable to attend may...
Sister Mildred (Eloise) Nachtman, OSF, died Monday, June 5, 2023 at the age of 89. The Mass of Christian Burial will be held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. Thursday, June 8, 2023. Masks are optional. Guests unable to attend may...
Sister Alda (Florence) Thilges, OSF, died Tuesday, May 16, 2023 at the age of 103. The Mass of Christian Burial will be held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, May 23, 2023. Masks are optional. Guests unable to attend may...
Sister Marian (Joanna) Klostermann, OSF died on Sunday, April 2, 2023 at the age of 90. The Rite of Final Committal was held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, April 3, 2023 followed by burial at the Sisters of St. Francis...
Sister Shirley (Luetta) Kamentz, OSF, died Sunday, March 5, 2023 at the age of 86. The Mass of Christian Burial will be held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, March 8, 2023. Masks are optional. Guests unable to attend may...
Sister Mary (Gustave) Klisart, OSF, died Friday, December 2, 2022 at the age of 89. The Mass of Christian Burial will be held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. Monday, December 5, 2022. Masks will be required. Guests unable to attend may...
Sister Denise (Jacinta) Streng died on October 9, 2022 at the age 96. The Rite of Final Committal was held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, October 11, 2022. A Memorial Mass will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, October 18,...
Sister Marie Therese (Mary Margaret) Kalb, OSF, died Tuesday, October 4, 2022 at the age of 88. The Mass of Christian Burial will be held at the Francis House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. Thursday, October 6, 2022. Masks will be required. Guests...
Sister Aimee Marie (Amy Margaret) Spahn, OSF, died Thursday, September 8, 2022 at the age of 102. The Mass of Christian Burial will be held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, September 14, 2022. Masks will be required. Guests...
Sister Rebecca (Adele) Rosemeyer, OSF died on September 6, 2022 at the age 100. The Rite of Final Committal will be held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 8, 2022 followed by burial at the Sisters of St. Francis...
Sister Verna (Clarence) Gaul, OSF, died Monday, July 4, 2022 at the age of 98. The Mass of Christian Burial will be held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, July 6, 2022. Masks will be required. Guests unable to attend may...
Sister Veronica (Herman) Schafers, OSF, died Monday, May 30, 2022 at the age of 100. The Mass of Christian Burial will be held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m., Thursday, June 2, 2022. Masks will be required. Guests unable to attend...
Sister Monica (Chabanel) McMahon, OSF, died Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at the age of 84. The Mass of Christian Burial will be held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Masks will be required. Guests unable to attend...
Sister Marlys (Felice) Becker, OSF died on February 18, 2022 at the age 88. The Memorial Mass for Sister Marlys Becker will be Monday, February 28, at 1:00 p.m. in Clare Chapel. All are invited to attend the service. Visitors will be required to wear masks. The...
Sister Donalda (Rosemary) Kehoe died February 5, 2022 at the age of 95. The Mass of Christian Burial will be held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. Thursday, February 10, 2022. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, guests may participate via...
Sister Rachel (Petra) Berns, OSF, died February 1, 2022, at Clare House in Dubuque. The Mass of Christian Burial will be held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. Monday, February 7, 2022. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, guests may...
Sister Jolene (Louise) Wingert. OSF, of the Clare House in Dubuque, Iowa died on January 31, 2022 at the Clare House. The Mass of Christian Burial will be held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. Friday, February 4, 2022. Due to COVID-19...
Sister Bona Joan (Johanna) Hebig, OSF, died Friday, December 17, 2021 at the age of 96. The Mass of Christian Burial will be held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, December 22, 2021. Bona Joan, daughter of the late George and...
Sister Corinne (Lorraine) Kutsch died on December 8, 2021 at the age 98. The Rite of Final Committal was held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, December 10, 2021. A Memorial Mass will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, December...
Sister Marla (Virginia) Smith, OSF, died Sunday, November 21, 2021 at the age of 98. The Mass of Christian Burial will be held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. Monday, November 29, 2021. Virginia, daughter of the late William and Mae...
Sister Colane (Martinella) Recker, OSF, died Friday, November 19, 2021 at the age of 81. The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 pm Monday, December 6, 2021. Livestream of the service can be viewed...
Sister Elizabeth (Martin) Brady, OSF, died on September 12, 2021, at Clare House. The Mass of Christian Burial will be Wednesday, September 15, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. in Clare Chapel. Masks will be required. Livestream of the service can be viewed...
Sister Maureen (Barbara Ann) Smith, OSF, died Sunday, August 15, 2021 at the age of 85. The Mass of Christian Burial will be held at the Francis House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, August 18, 2021. Masks will be required. Maureen Alice,...
Sister Dolores (Eugene) McAllister, OSF, died Saturday, July 17, 2021 at the age of 96. The Mass of Christian Burial will be held at the Francis House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, July 21, 2021. Dolores, daughter of the late Joseph and...
Sister JoAnn (Vernon) Lohrman, OSF, died Tuesday, July 6, 2021 at the age of 90. The Mass of Christian Burial will be held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. Friday, July 9, 2021. Josephine, daughter of the late Charles and Ellen “Nellie”...
Sister Norma Jean (Nathan) Holthaus, OSF, died Thursday, June 24, 2021 at the age of 87. The remembering service will be livestreamed on Monday, June 28, at 11 a.m. at https://www.youtube.com/dubuquefranciscans. Viewing of the body will be from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30...
Sister Priscilla (Patricia) Stork, OSF, died Tuesday, June 22, 2021 at the age of 94. The Mass of Christian Burial will be held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. Friday, June 25, 2021. Patricia, daughter of the late Edward and Jennie...
Sister Mary Margretta (Dolores) Trumm, OSF, age 104, of Clare House, Dubuque, Iowa, died at 4:19 a.m. Sunday, March 21, 2021, at Clare House. The Rite of Final Commendation and Celebration of Life was held in Clare Chapel Tuesday, March 23, 2021. Dolores Trumm was...
Sister Josephine (Philip) Schmitz, OSF, died Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at the age of 98. A private Celebration of Life and Rite of Final Commendation will be held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. Friday, February 19, 2021. Burial...
Sister Marcelline (Alfrieda) Arndorfer, OSF, died Wednesday, January 6, 2021 at the age of 102. A private Celebration of Life and Rite of Final Commendation will be held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. Monday, January 11, 2021....
Sister Edith (Marvin) Halbach, OSF, died Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at the age of 90. A private Celebration of Life and Rite of Final Commendation will be held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. Friday, December 4, 2020. Edith, daughter of...
Sister Noreen (Celestine) Pearce, OSF, died Wednesday, November 25, 2020 at the age of 97. The Rite of Final Commendation and Celebration of Life will be held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 2, 2020. Noreen,...
Siter Veronica (Cheryl) Bagenstos, OSF, died Monday, November 23, 2020 at the age of 72. A private Rite of Final Commendation will be held at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, November 25, 2020 at the OSF Natural Burial Site. A private Celebration of Life will be held at the...
Sister Martha Ann Luedtke, OSF, died Thursday, November 19, 2020 at the age of 79. The Celebration of Life and Rite of Final Commendation will be held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. Monday, November 23, 2020. Kathryn, daughter of the...
Sr. Lucilla Oberbroeckling, OSF, died Saturday, November 14, 2020 at the age of 95. The Celebration of Life and Rite of Final Commendation will be held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, November 18, 2020. Germaine, daughter of...
Sister Lois (Raphaela) Friedman, OSF, died Tuesday, November 10, 2020 at the age of 84. The Rite of Final Commendation will be held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, November 13, 2020. Lois, daughter of the late Joseph and...
Sister Marian Einck, OSF, died July 23, 2020, in the 74th year of her religious life. On August 23, 1929 a child was born to Joseph and Catherine (Miller) Einck on a farm near Ossian, IA. Two days later she was baptized and given the name Marian Rose. Marian had three...
Sister Lou Ann (Aquilena) Kilburg, OSF, died on Monday, July 13, 2020 at MercyOne Hospital, Dubuque. A private Rite of Final Commendation will be held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, July 17, 2020. A Memorial Mass will be...
Sr. Consilia Schoenherr OSF, age 99, died Monday, May 18, 2020, at Mount St. Francis Center. Following Archdiocesan directives, a private Committal Service will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, May 21. A Memorial Mass will be scheduled for a later date. Burial will be...
Sister Mona Wingert OSF, age 92, died Tuesday, March 17, 2020 at MercyOne Hospital. Following Archdiocesan directives, a private Committal Service was held on Thursday, March 19. A Memorial Mass will be scheduled for a later date. On Easter Sunday, 1927, George and...
Sister Pat Heuer, OSF, died Wednesday, March 11, 2020, at Clare House in Dubuque. The Mass of Christian Burial will be, Monday, March 16, 2020, at 1:00 p.m. in Francis Chapel. Mount St. Francis Center, 3390 Windsor Ave., Dubuque. Burial will be at Mount Calvary...
Sister Blanche Marie (Claude) Haag, OSF, died at 3:55 p.m. January 31, 2020, at Clare House. The Mass of Christian Burial will be Wednesday, February 5, 2020, at 1:00 p.m. in Francis Chapel. Burial will follow in Mount Calvary Cemetery. Visitation will be from...
Sister Helen (Gerland) Huewe, OSF, 83, died January 11, 2020, at Mercy Hospital. On October 1, 1935 Helen was born to Gerland and Celeste (Freymann) Huewe in Remsen, Iowa. She had an older brother Phil. Her older sister Kathleen died the day after birth. Seven years...
Sister Mary Merici (Elizabeth) Oehrlein, OSF, 106, of Dubuque, died December 7, 2019, at Clare House. Michael Anton Oehrlein came to America from Bavaria, Germany, in 1900 to become a tool and die maker in Aurora, Illinois. He married Mary Weber in 1908 and together...
Sister Mary Gregoria (Mary Catherine) Rush died Saturday, November 16, 2019 at the age of 88. Mary Catherine Rush was born January 21, 1931 at seven months gestation to John and Mary (Enright) Rush in Sioux City, IA. Because she was so premature, she was baptized on...
Sister Barbara (Roland) Schaefer, OSF, 90, died Thursday, October 24, 2019 at Clare House in the 72nd year of her religious life. The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 1:00 p.m., Monday, October 28, 2019, in Francis Chapel, 3390 Windsor Ave, Dubuque....
Sister Carol Hoverman, OSF died October 3, 2019. The Mass of Christian Burial will be Monday, October 7, 2019, at 1:00 p.m. in Francis Chapel at Mount St. Francis Center, 3390 Windsor Ave., Dubuque. Visitation will be from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday, October 6, 2019...
Sister Romaine (Pearl) Pickart, OSF, 92, of the Clare House, died at 4:22 p.m. Tuesday, August 13, 2019, at the Clare House. The Mass of Christian Burial will be Friday, August 16, 2019, at 1 p.m. in Francis Chapel. Burial will be in Mount Calvary Cemetery. Visitation...
Sister Janet (Helena) Osterhoff, OSF, died Monday, August 5, 2019, at Clare House, Dubuque. The Mass of Christian Burial will be Thursday, August 8, 2019 at 1:00 p.m. in Francis Chapel. Burial will be in Mount Calvary Cemetery. Visitation will held form 4 p.m. to 7...
Sister Bernice (Hyacinth) Schuetz, OSF, died Friday, August 2, 2019, at Clare House in Dubuque. The Rite of Final Commendation was held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, August 5, 2019. A Memorial Mass will be held at Mount...
Sister Marie (Antoine) Bohr, OSF, of Clare House, Dubuque, Iowa, died on Saturday, June 1, 2019, at Clare House. Born on the family’s farm near Ossian, Iowa, Marie was the youngest of eight sons and six daughters born to Herman and Agnes (Hemesath) Bohr. (A brother,...
Sister Joan (Alexander) Stoffel, OSF, died on Tuesday, May 28, 2019, at Clare House, at Mount St. Francis Center. Joan was born on June 29, 1933, the second daughter of Alex and Mary (Neubrand) Stoffel. The family of four girls and two boys lived on a farm near...
Sister Lois (Leola) Tilkes, died on Wednesday, May 8, 2019 at Clare House. On April 20, 1937, Lois was born to John and Leone (Diederich) Tilkes. Lois was the third child of seven which included Nick, Lawrence, Jeannette, Grace, Carolyn, and Madelyn. Her family lived...
Sister Margaret (Armand) Galm died on Sunday, May 5, 2019, at Clare House. On a hot Sunday afternoon June 24, 1923, Margaret was born to John and Amalie (Schafer) Galm. She was the oldest of seven children which included her brothers Herman, Edwin, Paul, Bernard,...
Sister Dolores (Michon) Ullrich, OSF, 83, died on Wednesday, April 17, 2019, at the University of Iowa Hospitals, Iowa City, Iowa. Dolores was born to Engelbert and Ella (Conley) Ullrich on a farm near Oto, Iowa on January 24, 1936. She was told that it was during one...
Sister Eileen (Baptista) Schoenherr, OSF died Saturday, January 26, 2019, at Clare House. The Mass of Christian Burial will be Friday, February 1, 2019 at 1:00 p.m. in Francis Chapel. Burial will be in Mount Calvary Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4:00–7:00 p.m....
Sister Antonita (Modesta) Soppe, OSF, 104, died on Thursday, January 24, 2019. Modesta Soppe was born in Worthington, Iowa, on March 28, 1914, the third of fifteen children born to Anton and Caroline (Lehmann) Soppe. She started her education at St. Paul’s Catholic...
Sister Rosemary “Rosie” (Perpetua) Wickham, 98, died Saturday, December 8, 2018 at Clare House in the 79th year of her religious life. The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated for Sister Rosemary at 1:00 p.m., Wednesday, December 12, in Francis Chapel. ...
Sister Jeanne (Joachim) Wickham, OSF died Sunday, November 25, 2018, at Clare House in Dubuque. Jeanne Wickham was born at home in Dubuque, IA on September 18, 1927, to Roseline (Delaney) and James Wickham. She was the fourth of five children. Several days after she...
Sister Mary Bosco (Mary Lou) Ryder, OSF, died Sunday, November 25, 2018, at Clare House. Mary Lou Ryder was born to William and Catherine (Ryan) Ryder, near Waukon, Iowa, and was baptized about a week later at St. Pius Church, Cherry Mound, Iowa. She was the second...
Sister Ignatia (Helen) Rosenbaum, OSF, died at 7:55 a.m. on Monday, November 12, 2018, at Clare House. Helen Agnes was born on a farm in Ossian, Iowa, to John and Louisa (Bucheit) Rosenbaum on July 31, 1928. They were a family of five children living on the farm. They...
Sister Bernardine (Mary Eudes) Dillinger died on Saturday, October 13, 2018 in the 78th year of her religious life. Sister Bernardine was the oldest child of Fred and Gertrude (Sihrer) Dillinger. She was born November 9, 1923, on a farm in Plankinton, South Dakota....
Sister Catherine (Eulalia) Weisensel, OSF, 94, died on Thursday, August 30, 2018, at Clare House. Catherine’s life began on December 8, 1923 as the seventh child of 12 born to Amanda (Diedrich) and Erhardt Weisensel in Stacyville, Iowa. Though Catherine was born on...
Sr. Carol (Marchell) Hilby, OSF, died Friday, July 20, 2018, at Clare House. Mass of Christian Burial will be at 1 p.m. Monday, July 23, in Francis Chapel. Burial will be in Mt. Calvary Cemetery. The third of nine children, Carol was born to Emil and Florence (Welp)...
Sister Janaan Hickie, OSF died Monday, June 11, 2018, at Clare House in the 64th year of her religious life. Janaan was born to Leo and Marie (Schmitt) Hickie on March 9, 1931, in Graf, Iowa. Her earliest memory of her mother and father was how religious they were....
Sister Doris (Mary Roderick) Recker, OSF, of Midlothian, Illinois, died, Thursday, January 11, 2018, at Palos Community Hospital, Palos Heights, Illinois. Sister was born to Clarence and Agnes (Helle) Recker near Dyersville, Iowa. She is the eldest of three sisters,...
Sister Kathryn (Thomas Mary) Fitzpatrick died on Wednesday, January 10, 2018, at Clare House. The Rite of Final Commendation will be held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 11, 2018. A Memorial Mass will be held at...
Sister Emiliana Meissen, OSF, 94, died on Monday, November 13, 2017, at Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque. Marie Katherine Meissen was born October 28, 1923 on a farm outside of Lawler, Iowa. She was the first born of Joseph Leo and Elizabeth (Hormisch) Meissen as well as...
Sister Susann Rogers, OSF, 94, died at 7:45 a.m. Monday, October 9, 2017, at Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque, in the 73rd year of her religious life. On June 25, 1923, twin girls, were born to George and Susan (Hosch) Rogers at the farm home in Monticello, Iowa. There...
Sister Joan Losey died Thursday, September 7, 2017, at Clare House in Dubuque, in her 69th year of religious life. Mass of Christian burial will be on Monday, September 11, 2017, at 1 p.m. in Francis Chapel at Mount St. Francis Center, Dubuque. A funeral vigil...
Sister Mary Robertine Smith, OSF, 92, of Clare House, Iowa, passed away at 2:05 a.m. Monday, September 4, 2017, at Clare House. Veronica Smith, the ninth child and first daughter of the eighteen children of John and Mabel Scott Smith, was born on a farm near Sumner,...
Sister Ivan Goedken, OSF, of Clare House, Dubuque, Iowa, died at 5:45 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017, in the 81st year of her religious life. The Mass of Christian Burial will be Wednesday, August 23, 2017, at 1 p.m. in Francis Chapel. Burial will be in Mount Calvary...
Tresa Klein was born to Jacob B. and Cecilia Goebel Klein in Granville, Iowa, on February 28, 1922. Tresa was baptized Helen, but went by the name of Tresa, and had three brothers and five sisters. Tresa attended 1st and 2nd grade in a country school in Floyd...
Sister Joanne (Mildred Ann) Streck, OSF, 80, was called home peacefully at 10:25 a.m., on Friday, May 26, 2017, at Clare House. To honor Sister’s life, The Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 1:00 p.m., on Tuesday, May 30, 2017, in Francis Chapel, 3390 Windsor...
Sister Dorothy Rolfes, OSF, 80, died Wednesday, February 15, 2017, at Clare House in her 57th year of religious life. Dorothy Caroline was born on February 5, 1937 to Bernard and Caroline (Reuther) Rolfes in LeMars, Iowa. She grew up in a family of seven brothers;...
Sister Annette George, OSF, died Friday, February 3, 2017, at Mercy Hospital in Dubuque in the 51st year of her religious life. Annette, the youngest of eight daughters of Albert Joseph and Anna Regina McDermott George, was born on January 27, 1943, at Mercy Hospital...
The Sisters of St. Francis, Dubuque, Iowa, commend to your charity the soul of their beloved Sister Lucy Kurt, OSF, who was born, June 1, 1925, and who departed this life, December 30, 2016 in the 71st year of her religious life. May she rest in peace! Kathleen Ruth...
Sister Solano Breuer, OSF, died on November 29, 2016, in the 75th year of her religious life. Coletta Magdalen Breuer was born at her family’s farm home in Glen Haven, Wisconsin on January 14, 1918. She was the second youngest of eight children of Arnold and Anna Mumm...
The Sisters of St. Francis of the Holy Family commend to your charity the soul of their beloved Sister Ramona Colling, OSF, who was born, January 15, 1921 and departed this life October 3, 2016 in the 73rd year of her religious life. Valeria Colling was the seventh...
Sister Eunice Hittner, OSF, died Saturday, May 7, 2016, at Clare House in the 80th year of her religious life. In Cornlea, Nebraska, Eunice Ann was born to William and Emma (Olk) Hittner around midnight December 19, 1919, amid a raging blizzard. William took the horse...
Sister Anna Marie Manternach, OSF, died on May 9, 2016, in the 71st year of her religious life. She was born to John and Susan (Lahr) Manternach on October 5, 1923, in Cascade, Iowa. She was the eighth child in the family. Anna Marie had a brother and sister who...
Sister Mary Lou (Roman), of Clare House, died Sunday, May 8, at Clare House in the 71st year of her religious life. On December 26, 1926, Mary Lou was born to Louis and Amanda (Jauert) Bigler in Postville, Iowa. She attended a country school for all the elementary...
Sister Jude Dietsch died Friday, February 26, 2016, at Clare House, in her 76th year of her religious life. Frances, born in Waterloo on July 3, 1921, was the third youngest of 12 children. She described her home as a very happy and kind place where religion played a...
The Sisters of St. Francis of the Holy Family, commend to your charity the soul of their beloved Sister Angelica Schultz, OSF, who was born, July 3, 1925, and who departed this life January 2, 2016, in the 71st year of her religious life. The Mass of Christian Burial...
The Sisters of St. Francis of the Holy Family commend to your charity the soul of their beloved Sister Lois Kobliska, OSF, who was born, December 8, 1936, and departed this life December 22, 2015 in the 59th year of her religious life. The Mass of Christian Burial...
The Sisters of St. Francis of the Holy Family, Mount St. Francis, Dubuque, Iowa, commend to your charity the soul of their beloved, Sister Lois Wagner, OSF, who was born, December 26, 1922, and departed this life October 27, 2015, in the 72nd year of her religious...
The Sisters of St. Francis of the Holy Family of Mount St. Francis, Dubuque, Iowa, commend to your charity the soul of their beloved Sister Gracia Schmitt, who was born, April 21, 1930, and departed this life September 14, 2015, in the 63rd year of her religious life....
Sister Rose Mary Carney, OSF, 83, died on Thursday, May 7, 2015. Patrick Carney left the home farm in Fillmore, Iowa, to work first at the Rock Island Arsenal and then the Ford Motor Company in Detroit for $5 a day. Here he met and married Elodie Frappier, who had...
Sister Mary Elaine Boeding, OSF, died on Monday, April 13, 2015. Mary Elaine was born in Petersburg, Iowa, to Henry and Alvira (Naber) Boeding on September 21, 1940. Following her graduation from Lamont Consolidated High School in 1959, she worked at Collins Radio...
Sister Viator Schulewitz, OSF, 86, died on Saturday, March 28, 2015, at Francis House. Lorraine Ruth was born to Frank and Helen Agster Schulewitz in Melrose Park, Illinois, on May 7, 1929. She had an older brother, Lester, and a younger brother, Francis. A month...
Sister Rose Mary Thillen, OSF, died on Saturday, January 10, 2015, at Clare House. Lila Jane Gertrude Thillen was born on May 19, 1929, in Dyersville, Iowa, to Alphonse and Bertha (Anstoetter) Thillen, the first of their five children. Weighing in at five pounds, she...
Sister Noel Weinert, OSF, 86, passed away on Thursday, November 13, 2014, at the Clare House. On January 19, 1928, a seventh child was born to Julius and Theresa (Schlicht) Weinert, in Oak Forest, IL. They named their new daughter Agnes at her baptism in St....
