Friday, 02 November 2012 09:55

HEIMERMAN
Norma (Reida), 72, St. Parick, Harper, Aug. 3.
BARNETT
Lewis Donald “Don,” 66, Iola, Oct. 1.
EISCHEN
Timothy Lawrence “Tim,” 63, Christ the King, Wichita, Oct. 10.

Wednesday, 17 October 2012 14:06

ELMORE
Kathryn, 97, Immaculate Conception, Danville, Sept. 26.
MEYSING
Paul W. 85, St. John Nepomucene, Aug. 6.
ANDERSON
Fred Ellis, 90, St. John, Iola, Sept. 2.

Wednesday, 03 October 2012 14:22

ZWICKI
Dale E., 81, Holy Cross, Hutchinson, July 29.
GALLEGOS
Carmen, 90, St. Joseph, Wichita, Aug. 30.
BAXTER
Dale Willcox, 75, St. Vincent de Paul, Andover, Aug. 31.

Wednesday, 19 September 2012 14:25

Adorer of the Blood of Christ Sister Florence Seib, formerly Sister Mary Denissa, died Sept. 2 at the ASC Wichita Center at age 81. She had been an Adorer for 63 years.
A funeral Mass was celebrated Saturday, Sept. 8. Burial was in the ASC cemetery.
She was a longtime educator, chaplain, and pastoral care minister who served in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas.
Sister Florence was born March 9, 1931, to Paul P. and Mary (Stoecklein) Seib of Ness City, the fifth child of 14, and baptized the next day at Sacred Heart Church in Ness City. On Sept. 2, 1947, at age 16, she entered the ASC community in Wichita, finishing high school at Sacred Heart Academy there.
She pronounced her first vows on July 1, 1949, and her permanent vows on July 1, 1954. Sister Florence earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education, with a minor in social science, in 1963 from Sacred Heart College in Wichita and a master’s degree in elementary education in 1971 from Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.
Her early ministry years included housekeeping and teaching elementary grades. After working in St. Mary’s Hospital business office, Enid, Okla., from 1981 to 1984, Sister Florence became part of a ministry formation program in the Diocese of Jefferson City, Mo. From 1986 to 1990, she taught courses for Catholics interested in deepening their spiritual growth and developing their parish ministry involvement.
In 1990, she earned a master’s degree in pastoral ministry from Seattle (Wash.) University. Sister Florence served as a hospital chaplain in Missouri from 1991 to 1993 and 1996 to 2001 and in Texas from 1993 to 1996. In 1993, she trained and earned a National Association of Catholic Chaplains certification.
Memorial contributions in memory of Sister Florence may be sent to the ASC Retirement Fund, 4233 Sulphur Ave., St. Louis, MO 63109, or made on-line at www.adorers.org by clicking on “Support Our Ministries” on the website’s left-hand column.

Wednesday, 05 September 2012 13:55

A funeral Mass was celebrated Aug. 21 for Adorer of the Blood of Christ Sister Nicolette Herman who served for many years in housekeeping and as a seamstress in ASC hospitals and convents in Kansas and Oklahoma and at what was then known as the Adorers’ Wichita Province.
Sister Nicolette died Aug. 16 at the Wichita Center. She was 92 years old and had been an Adorer of the Blood of Christ for 75 years.
Sister Nicolette was born on April 15, 1920, a twin, to Mary (Wille) and John Herman and baptized Clara Catherine in Westphalia, Kan. On Aug. 28, 1935, Sister Nicolette entered the Wichita ASC Community at the age of 15, the first of five siblings to do so. She made her first vows on Aug. 10, 1937, and her final vows on July 1, 1942.
Sister Nicolette ministered in Kansas and Oklahoma as a seamstress, convent housekeeper and hospital executive housekeeper. An officer in the National Executive Housekeepers, she was a certified executive housekeeper. She took great pride in her work. Sister Nicolette served as assistant seamstress at the Wichita Provincial House from 1937 to 1939 and 1941 to 1945. She was a general domestic in convents in Marienthal, Kan., from 1939 to 1940 and at Okarche, Okla., from 1940 to 1941. She served as convent housekeeper in Liebenthal, Kan., from 1945 to 1946 and Okarche from 1946 to 1947.
From 1947 to 1960, Sister Nicolette was a seamstress at St. Mary’s Hospital in Enid, Okla. She moved to Tulsa, Okla., where she served as executive housekeeper at St. Francis Hospital from 1960 to 1968. Sister Nicolette returned to St. Mary’s Hospital in Enid to serve as executive housekeeper from 1968 to 1986 and housekeeping manager from 1986 to 1990. She worked part time in housekeeping service at St. Mary’s Hospital from 1990 to 1995. She then volunteered there from 1995 to September 2005, when she moved to the Wichita Center and lived out a mission of prayer and presence until her death.
Memorial contributions in memory of Sister Nicolette may be sent to the ASC Retirement Fund, 4233 Sulphur Ave., St. Louis, MO 63109, or made on-line at www.adorers.org by clicking on “Support Our Ministries” on the website’s left-hand column.

Wednesday, 05 September 2012 13:54

Father Robert F. Pepe, a priest of the Diocese of Wichita for 62 years, died Monday, Aug. 27. He was 87.
Services for Father Pepe were held in St. Elizabeth Chapel at the Catholic Care Center in Wichita Thursday and Friday, Aug. 30 and 31. Burial was at Ascension Cemetery.
Father Pepe was born on Nov. 12, 1924, in New York City and grew up in Buffalo, N.Y. He began his studies for the priesthood as a high school freshman at St. Bernard’s Seminary in Rochester, N.Y. He continued at Kenrick Seminary in St. Louis, Mo., and was ordained to the priesthood on May 30, 1950, for the Diocese of Wichita.
Father Pepe served as pastor in the following parishes: St. Rose of Lima, Columbus; Immaculate Conception, West Mineral; Holy Savior, Wichita; St. Joseph, Andale; and St. John, Iola. He retired from parish ministry in 1996 and was living at the Catholic Care Center in Wichita at the time of his death.
In retirement he lived for several years in a small cabin at Grand Lake in Oklahoma.  During that period he celebrated Mass every weekend at St. Frances Church in Langley, Okla.
Fr. Pepe was an eloquent preacher and a strong defender of the right to life.
A friend of Fr. Pepe said, he exercised “the apostolate of friendship” that was so often spoken about by Monsignor Ronald Knox.
Dom Philip Anderson, the Abbot of Clear Creek Monastery in the Diocese of Tulsa and an old friend of Father Pepe’s, said of him, “We owe him more than we know, as do many others.”

Wednesday, 05 September 2012 13:52

WEST
Emma Jean (Scully), 68, St. John, Iola, Aug. 2.
MANCAO
Florante R., M.D., 58, St. Francis of Assisi, Wichita, Aug. 9.
DAY
Robert Michael “Mike,” 50, St. Catherine of Siena, Wichita, Aug. 10.