Sinnwelll, Sister Armella, 1925-2000

SINNWELL, AMHALT, KUEHN, LAURES

Posted By: Bruce Kuennen (email)
Date: 2/18/2017 at 21:53:55

DUBUQUE — Sister Armella Sinnwell OSF, 75, died Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2000 at Holy Family Hall Infirmary in Dubuque.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be Friday, Aug. 18 at 1 p.m. in Mount St. Francis Chapel, Dubuque.

Burial will be in Mt. Calvary Cemetery, Dubuque.

Visitation was Thursday, Aug. 17 from 4-7:30 p.m. at Mount St. Francis Chapel, with a Wake Service at 7:30 p.m.

Sister Armella Sinnwell OSF (Ursula) was born July 28,1925 at Roseville, the daughter of William and Elizabeth (Amhalt) Sinnwell. The family moved to Ionia when she was a young child. Sister received her education at St. Boniface School, Ionia. She entered the Sisters of St. Francis on Aug. 25, 1943 and made her final profession of vows on Aug. lz, 1949. She taught primary grades at St. Mary's, • Dubuque, Alton, Larcnwood, Remsen, St. Mary’s, New Hampton, Odebolt and Webster City in Iowa, also in Chicago, IL. Sister Armella was teaching at St. Mary's, New Hampton, at the time of the school's closing. The weakness from Multiple Sclerosis, first noticed in the late sixties, brought her to Holy Family Hall Infirmary in 1976.

Surviving are two brothers, Delphin 'Tete", Waterloo, Myron (Dorothy), New Jersey; two sisters, Junilla Kuehn and Kathleen (Virgil) Laures, New Hampton; a sister-in-law, Marie, Nashua.

Preceding her in death were her parents and a brother, Cyril.

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

Source: New Hampton Tribune Aug. 18, 2000 from the Elma library collection assembled by Marian (Marr) McGee

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