CARR, Betty RSM 1923-2012

CARR, MORAN, WRIGHT, RASQUE, JACOBS, BASETICH

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 8/15/2012 at 23:30:18

Sister Betty Carr, RSM, age 88, died on Monday, Aug. 13, 2012 at Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids after a long illness. Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 16 at the Sacred Heart Convent Chapel in Cedar Rapids by Rev. David Ambrosy. Burial will follow the funeral service at Mount Calvary Cemetery in Cedar Rapids. Friends may call 4 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 15 at Sacred Heart Convent in Cedar Rapids with a wake service at 7 p.m. Arrangements are with Stewart Baxter Funeral and Memorial Services.

Sister Betty Carr was born in Farley, Iowa on Nov. 11, 1923. She was the second youngest of nine children to Joseph and Callista (Moran) Carr. She attended St. Joseph School in Farley until the age of twelve when her family moved to Cascade, Iowa in 1935. Sister Betty graduated from St. Martin School in Cascade in 1941 and after graduation went to Chicago for two weeks vacation, but remained there for three years. She worked at Stouffer’s Restaurant until World War II broke out and then got a job at International Harvester as an overhead crane operator helping to put tractors together for war use. After three years, Sister Betty returned to Dubuque, Iowa then entered the Sisters of Mercy Cedar Rapids Community in 1946.

Sister Betty taught first grade for 47 years in various schools in Kalispell, Mont.; Edina, Minn.; and in Iowa at St. John’s and Sacred Heart in Waterloo; St. Nicholas in Evansdale; St. Joseph’s in DeWitt; Sacred Heart in Oelwein; St. Joseph’s in Marion and St. Patrick’s in Anamosa. She returned to Kalispell, Mont, for the last 15 years of her ministry where she served at St. Matthew’s School for two years and the remaining 13 years for St. Matthew’s Parish visiting the homebound. In 2005, Sister Betty retired to Sacred Heart Convent in Cedar Rapids.

Sister Betty was an avid baseball fan, especially her beloved Chicago White Sox. She was also an avid football fan of the Iowa Hawkeyes and Chicago Bears.

Sister Betty is preceded in death by her parents; brothers, Howard, Milton, Roy and Jack; sisters, Bert Wright, Pat Rasque, and Marge Jacobs; three nephews; one niece and her dog, Mattie. In addition to the Sisters of Mercy,

Sister Betty is survived by a sister, Dolly Basetich of Downers Grove, Ill. and many wonderful nieces, nephews and grand nieces and nephews.

Memorials may be made to the Sisters of Mercy at 1125 Prairie Drive NE, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52402.

[Stewart Baxter Funeral Home, Cedar Rapids, Iowa]

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