Joan Sheil

Sister Joan Sheil

July 28, 1934 - December 24, 2024   |   Passed On

Sr. Joan served Marycrest College/Marycrest-Teikyo University/Marycrest International University for 43 years, beginning in 1956 as a library student worker, then in 1958 as assistant librarian and cataloger. Her career at Marycrest included being Director of the Media Center and Closed Circuit Television (1965-1972), Vice President of Student Affairs (1968-1970), Chair of the Department of Education, Library Science, and Psychology (1982-1985), Faculty Athletic Representative starting in 1980, and as Director of Library Services (1972-1999).

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Sister Margaretha Fitzgerald

January 26, 1942 - December 17, 2024   |   Passed On

Sr. Greta was an excellent teacher, as demonstrated for more than 40 years in schools in the dioceses of Des Moines and Davenport in Iowa, and Dodge City in Kansas. She taught in the middle grades for much of that time. In Iowa she taught in the farthest western location in Neola and east in Davenport and Bettendorf. In Des Moines, she made the rounds – St. Anthony, St. Theresa, and Christ the King schools.

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Rachel Beeson

February 7, 1932 - October 22, 2024   |   Passed On

She was a member of the Seeds of Hope team in Davenport, matching volunteers with opportunities to serve the homeless, migrants and refugees, inner- city children and the elderly.

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Sister Elaine Hagedorn

October 27, 1935 - August 20, 2024   |   Passed On

The area in which she worked resembled a mini United Nations - with many different ethnic groups...this provided the opportunity to work for peace and justice on a practical annd an educational level.

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Sister Virginia Mary Bartholome

October 10, 1923 - July 13, 2024   |   Passed On

Her ministry as a teacher/librarian in Montana included St. Leo High School in Lewistown and Central Catholic High School in Great Falls. She was the head librarian at Marycrest College in Davenport and reference librarian at the Great Falls Public Library in Great Falls. She volunteered from 1997-2009, setting up the archives in the University of Great Falls library.

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Sister Jeanette Kopel

September 26, 1933 - March 26, 2024   |   Passed On

Sister Jeanette Kopel was born on September 26, 1933 and entered the Congregation of the Humility of Mary on January 6, 1954. She received the habit and religious name Sr. Mary Rene on July 26, 1954, and pronounced her first vows on July 26, 1956. She died on March 26, 2024.

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Sister Rosalia Riedel

November 23, 1923 - October 31, 2023   |   Passed On

Sr. Rosalia received a BA in education from Marycrest College and received her Certified Nurses Aide training from Scott Community College in Bettendorf, Iowa. Her ministry of teaching found her in the Iowa cities of Centerville, Bettendorf, Albia, Des Moines, Oskaloosa and Ottumwa and in Lewistown, Montana and Rock Island, Illinois. She also was a program facilitator at the Center for Active Seniors (CASI) in Davenport.

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Sister Claudellen Pentecost

February 13, 1932 - August 12, 2023   |   Passed On

Lois A. Pentecost was born on February 13, 1932, to Claude and Ida E. Crowley Pentecost in Lewistown, Montana. Lois was the youngest of 11 siblings, with five brothers and five sisters, and she bragged she had grown up “in one of the best families in the world.”

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Sister Patricia Miller

August 29, 1931 - July 1, 2023   |   Passed On

Sister Patricia Miller died July 1, 2023

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Sister Miriam Ehrhardt

December 3, 1934 - June 4, 2023   |   Passed On

Sr. Miriam Ehrhardt died on June 20, 2023.

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Sister Helen (M. Marice) Strohman

December 13, 1932 - April 7, 2023   |   Passed On

Sr. Helen was a teacher in Iowa, Minnesota and Mississippi. She was the director of the YES Program in Canton, MS and a pastoral minister at St. Joseph Church in North English, IA. She was director of the Rainbow Literacy Center and worked for the MADCAAP Educational Program in Canton. Sr. Helen taught in the Madison County Jail in Mississippi and helped create the volunteer program Seeds of Hope in Davenport.

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Sister Mary Kayleen Heffron

April 4, 1931 - March 6, 2023   |   Passed On

Sister Mary Kayleen Heffron entered the Congregation of the Humility of Mary in 1959. She served as a dedicated nurse in the Ottumwa area for nearly 50 years.

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Sister Joan LeBeau

May 15, 1935 - October 8, 2022   |   Passed On

Sr. Joan LeBeau entered the Congregation of the Humility of Mary in 1953 and professed vows in 1955 as Sister Mary LeAnne.

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Sister Harriett (M. St. Edward) Ping

December 24, 1932 - July 22, 2022   |   Passed On

Sr. Harriet’s ministry of teaching found her in Iowa several towns in Iowa and Montana.. She was a librarian at Marycrest College Davenport and worked in administration at Martina Place Assisted Living in Johnston, Iowa. After retirement Sr. Harriet enjoyed volunteering at Our lady of the Prairie Retreat.

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Sister Hilary Veith

June 26, 1925 - April 20, 2022   |   Passed On

Sr. Hilary’s spent most of her life ministering in Ottumwa, Iowa, visiting and counseling shut-ins in nursing homes, the home-bound, persons in jail and writing letters to those in prison. She continues ministering through prayer and witness.

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