Sister Mary Elaine Boeding, OSF

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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 Company for two years.

On October 8, 1961, she entered Mount St. Francis, and was received August 10, 1962, with the name, Sister Anne Christine. After her profession of vows on August 12, 1964, she was sent to work as a homemaker at North Buena Vista and then Hospers. She worked as a driver and switchboard operator at Mount St. Francis, and as an aide at Holy Family Hall, and St. Francis Home.

From 1974-1976, she was in a study program and worked as an aide at St. Raphael’s Home in St. Cloud, Minn. She studied at Pierre, S.D., where she attained her LPN certification. She then went to St. Mary’s Hospital in Emporia, Kan., for a year.

Mary Elaine worked in various capacities at Immaculate Conception Convent, Stonehill Care Center, and Visitation Convent. She worked at Home Health Care, Amicare, and Home Instead until 2008. Her last years were spent working at Mount St. Francis.

Survivors: Sister is survived by her sisters: Dorothy (Wayne) Lovetinsky, Rose Ann (Gary) Davis, Laura Jean (Allen) Behning and Janet (Tom) Wilhelm; her brothers Francis (Lois), Al (Patsy); brother-in-law John Thys and her Franciscan sisters with whom she shared 52 years of her life.

Sister was preceded in death by her parents and her brothers Herman (Coletta), Linus (Joyce), and Leo (Edith); her sisters: Virginia Wise and Rita Mae Thys.

Memorials may be given to the Sisters of St. Francis, Dubuque.