Thursday, 04 November 2010 12:30

GOSVENER
Steven, 47, St. Joseph, Wichita, Oct. 12.
DUGAN
Joe, 73, St. Anne, Wichita, Oct. 7.
MIES
Virginia Wrench Sealey, 93, St. Anthony, Wichita, Oct. 7.

Thursday, 14 October 2010 15:31

SAYLER
Juanita Marie, 28, St. Anthony, Wellington, Sept. 18.
CANNON
Ofelia Dolores “Dee,” 74, Iola, Sept. 20.
MEYER
Jerome “Jerry,” 69, St. Joseph, Ost, Sept. 23.

Thursday, 14 October 2010 15:31

Adorer of the Blood of Christ Sister Joyce Stoecklein, 82, a longtime teacher and office worker, died Oct. 1. Sixty-four of her years were lived as a professed Adorer of the Blood of Christ.
The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Oct. 5 in the Wichita Center’s Chapel of Our Lady of the New Covenant, with Father Tom Welk as presider and homilist. Burial in the community cemetery followed.
Born Dec. 29, l927, and was baptized Velma on New Year’s Day at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Bazine, Kan.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in education in 1958 from Sacred Heart College (now Newman University) in Wichita. She also completed teacher certification course work at Marymount College, in Salina, Kan.
Most of her teaching ministry was in Kansas at the intermediate grade levels.
Sister Joyce retired to the ASC Wichita Center in Kansas in the summer of 2005. Among her favorite activities were reading, listening to music and watching sports.
Memorial contributions in Sister Joyce’s honor may be sent to the ASC Retirement Fund, ASC Wichita Center, 1165 Southwest Boulevard, Wichita, KS 67213.

Thursday, 14 October 2010 15:29

DUBUQUE, Iowa – Sister of Charity Carol Bartlett, 96, died Sept. 24, at Mount Carmel. Services were held Sept. 29.
In the Diocese of Wichita, Sister Carol taught at Mount Carmel Academy in Wichita from 1969 to 1971. She was an educator and administrator in Fort Dodge, Iowa City, Waterloo and Sioux City, Iowa; Chicago, Ill.; Phoenix, Ariz.; and Burbank and Santa Barbara, Calif. She was parish minister, director of religious education, tutor/teacher aide, parish secretary and volunteer in Phoenix, Ariz.
Sister Carol was born in Cuba City, Wis., on Feb. 15, 1914. She professed first vows on March 19, 1937, and final vows on Aug. 15, 1942.
Memorials may be given to the Sisters of Charity, BVM Support Fund, 1100 Carmel Drive, Dubuque, Iowa 52003, or online at www.bvmcong.org/whatsnew_obits.cfm.

Thursday, 14 October 2010 15:27

Services were held Oct. 7 at the Wichita Center of the Congregation of St. Joseph, Wichita. She is interred in the sisters’ cemetery at the Wichita Center of the Congregation of St. Joseph.
She was born on Aug. 24, 1928, on a farm west of Zenda. After completing three years of study at Sacred Heart College (now Newman University) in Wichita, Mary Jane received an emergency teaching certificate, which enabled her to teach for three years in rural one-room schools.
Following her return from Europe after making the 1950 Holy Year Pilgrimage, Mary Jane entered the Congregation of St. Joseph. She was received into the congregation on April 3, 1951 and was given the name Sister Mary de Lourdes. Following the renewal of religious life after Vatican II, she returned to her baptismal name.
She earned an associate’s degree from Sacred Heart College, a bachelor’s degree in education from St, Mary of the Plains College, Dodge City, and a master’s in Administration for Elementary Education from Emporia State Teachers’ College.
Sister Mary Jane taught in Catholic elementary schools in Wichita, Frontenac, Hoisington and Florence. She ministered as a principal in Catholic elementary schools in California, Oregon, and Derby, Kan. Sister Mary Jane served in parish ministry at Sacred Heart parish, Dodge City.
For the past 15 years Sister Mary Jane has been involved with the Via Christ Wichita Network, first as a receptionist at Via Christi Hospital on Harry, and then as a volunteer a the information booth at Via Christ Hospital on St. Francis.

Wednesday, 29 September 2010 14:16

CONNELLY
Merle Allen 52, St. Thomas Aquinas, Wichita, Sept. 8.
HEFREN
Fred W., 90, All Saints, Wichita, Sept. 10.
JONES
Dorothy Mae, 96, Blessed Sacrament, Wichita, Sept. 12.

Thursday, 16 September 2010 14:00

Father John Jirak informed us of the death of his grandmother,
Margaret M. Jirak, the grandmother of Father John Jirak, died Monday, Sept. 6.
A funeral Mass was celebrated Friday, Sept. 10, at Holy Redeemer Church in Tampa, Kan.
Father Jirak is pastor of Blessed Sacrament Church, 124 N. Roosevelt, Wichita, KS 67208.

Thursday, 16 September 2010 13:59

WICHITA – Sister Marie Broussard, 92, a member of the Congregation of St. Joseph in New Orleans who was displaced by Hurricane Katrina, died Friday, Aug. 27, in Wichita.
She entered the congregation in 1938 and ministered as an educator for 47 years. She served as a bookkeeper from 1987 to 2005. 
Sister Marie moved to Baton Rouge from New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina and retired to the congregation’s Wichita Center earlier this year.
A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated for Sister Marie on Aug. 31, at the Wichita Center.  She was interred in the center’s cemetery. A memorial Mass was celebrated in Baton Rouge on Sept. 8.

Thursday, 16 September 2010 13:58

HERRMAN
Christina E. (Faber), 90, St. Peter, Schulte, Aug. 26.
METSKER
Ursula Celestia (Neuwirth), 77, Blessed Sacrament, Wichita, Aug. 26.
SLANE
William Roy “Bill,” 57, St. Francis Xavier, Cherryvale, Aug. 26.

Thursday, 02 September 2010 09:11

Congregation of St. Joseph Sister Rosemary Fiedler died Aug. 24 in Wichita. She was 74.
A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated for Sister Rosemary on Aug. 27 at the Wichita Center of the Congregation of St. Joseph. She is interred in the Wichita Center Cemetery.
Sister was born on April 7, 1936, the youngest of five children born to Frances and Fred Fiedler of Chase. Rosemary entered the congregation of St. Joseph on March 12, 1952. At that time she was given the name Sister Francis Aloysius. Following the renewal of religious life after Vatican II, she exercised the option to return to her baptismal name.
An educator throughout much of her religious life, Sister Rosemary taught at Blessed Sacrament, St. Mary’s Cathedral, and Holy Savior schools in Wichita; St. Mary, Pittsburg; Holy Name, Winfield; St. Patrick, Parsons; St. John, Iola; St. Patrick, Kingman; and St. Teresa, Hutchinson. She also taught in Catholic schools in Dodge City, Ponca City, Okla., and San Leandro and Sunnyvale, Calif.
In 1990 Sister Rosemary began ministering in Community Services at Via Christi Hospitals in Wichita where she served as a librarian for the parish nurse program and as a pediatric teacher. Before her retirement from active ministry Sister Rosemary also served as an administrative assistant for CSJ Dear Neighbor Ministries, Inc., and she assisted with clerical work in the congregation’s vocation ministry office at the Wichita Center.