Obituaries

Sr. Carol (Marchell) Hilby, OSF, died Friday, July 20, 2018, at Clare House. Mass of Christian Burial will be at 1 p.m. Monday, July 23, in Francis Chapel. Burial will be in Mt. Calvary Cemetery. The third of nine children,…

Sister Janaan Hickie, OSF died Monday, June 11, 2018, at Clare House in the 64th year of her religious life. Janaan was born to Leo and Marie (Schmitt) Hickie on March 9, 1931, in Graf, Iowa. Her earliest memory of…

Sister Doris (Mary Roderick) Recker, OSF, of Midlothian, Illinois, died, Thursday, January 11, 2018, at Palos Community Hospital, Palos Heights, Illinois. Sister was born to Clarence and Agnes (Helle) Recker near Dyersville, Iowa.  She is the eldest of three sisters, Edith,…

Sister Kathryn (Thomas Mary) Fitzpatrick died on Wednesday, January 10, 2018, at Clare House. The Rite of Final Commendation will be held at the Clare House Chapel, Mount St. Francis Center at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 11, 2018.  A…

Sister Emiliana Meissen, OSF, 94, died on Monday, November 13, 2017, at Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque. Marie Katherine Meissen was born October 28, 1923 on a farm outside of Lawler, Iowa. She was the first born of Joseph Leo and Elizabeth…

Sister Susann Rogers, OSF, 94, died at 7:45 a.m. Monday, October 9, 2017, at Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque, in the 73rd year of her religious life. On June 25, 1923, twin girls, were born to George and Susan (Hosch) Rogers at…

Sister Mary Ann Helle, OSF, 79, died on Monday, September 18, 2017, at at Clare House, in the 61st year of her religious life. On November 3, 1937, Mary Ann Helle was born to George and Sedella (Kramer) Helle on…

Sister Joan Losey died Thursday, September 7, 2017, at Clare House in Dubuque, in her 69th year of religious life. Mass of Christian burial will be on Monday, September 11, 2017, at 1 p.m. in Francis Chapel at Mount St.…

Sister Mary Robertine Smith, OSF, 92, of Clare House, Iowa, passed away at 2:05 a.m. Monday, September 4, 2017, at Clare House. Veronica Smith, the ninth child and first daughter of the eighteen children of John and Mabel Scott Smith,…

Sister Ivan Goedken, OSF, of Clare House, Dubuque, Iowa, died at 5:45 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017, in the 81st year of her religious life. The Mass of Christian Burial will be Wednesday, August 23, 2017, at 1 p.m. in…