by admin on April 5, 2013
Sister Estelle Panger celebrated her 100th birthday April 1, one day after her actual birthday, which was March 31st, Easter Sunday. Benet Hall friends joined relatives to congratulate Sister Estelle on this milestone. . . . .
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by admin on September 21, 2012
Sister Monica Laughlin, OSB, joined the ranks of 90-year-olds on September 1 this year. She was feted with a special dinner by her former colleagues at The College of St. Scholastica where she had taught music for sixty years. The following Wednesday, September 5, her St. Scholastica Monastery Community celebrated this significant birthday with [...]
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Sister Thea Sandusky celebrated her 104th birthday on Benet Hall at the Monastery . . .
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by admin on July 28, 2011
Sister Devota LaVoie, OSB, celebrated her 101th birthday with Sisters on Benet Hall on Wednesday afternoon, July 27. Sisters from throughout the Community came to sing Happy Birthday . . .
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The Monastery’s oldest member, Sister Thea Sandusky, OSB, celebrated her 103rd birthday on Friday, June 3 . . .
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by admin on March 2, 2010
Sister Renee was born February 25, 1920, in Charleston, South Carolina, the first child of Nelida and Felix Cormier. They named her Marie Frances, the oldest of four girls and twin brothers.
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by admin on January 18, 2010
Sister Ethel Radtke celebrated her 90th birthday with her Community on Sunday, January 17, and and blew out the candles on a colorful, beautifully decorated cupcake-cake. Sister Ethel has lived a varied and dedicated life of ministry. She was born in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, in 1920. She entered the Monastery as a postulant in 1941, [...]
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by admin on December 31, 2009
Sister Magdalen (formerly Magdella) Dooper, OSB, 97, of St. Scholastica Monastery, died December 27, 2009. She entered the Duluth Benedictine community on February 24, 1931, and was admitted to the novitiate November 13, 1931, when she received the name “Magdella.” Many years later she returned to her baptismal name. Sister made her first profession December [...]
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