Sister Margaretha Weber

WEBER, WELLNER, PIEPER, AXTHELM

Posted By: Ruth Maring - Volunteer (email)
Date: 3/29/2006 at 19:51:31

The Clinton Herald
Published: March 28, 2006 02:45 pm

Sister Margaretha Weber

Visitation: 3:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday at The Canticle, 841 13th Ave. North, with a rosary at 3:30 p.m. and Scripture service at 6:30 p.m.

SERVICES: 11 a.m. Friday at The Canticle with the Rev.

James Keenan officiating.

CLINTON — Sister Margaretha Weber, OSF, 79, of the Alverno Health Care Facility, died Saturday at Mercy North Hospital.

Burial will be in the St. Irenaeus Calvary Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be relatives, friends and members of the Sisters of St. Francis.

She was born March 29, 1926, in Nauvoo, Ill., to Albert Gabriel and Veronica C. Wellner Weber.

She attended Central Elementary School, Hancock County, Ill. She graduated from Ss. Peter and Paul High School, Nauvoo. She attended Mount St. Clare College, Clinton, and the Mercy Hospital School of Nursing, Burlington.

She joined the Sister of St. Francis on Sept. 8, 1946, and took her final vows on Aug. 12, 1952.

She received a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from St. Louis University and a Master of Science degree in nursing from the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. She also studied at the College of St. Teresa, Winona, Minn.; Peabody College, Nashville, Tenn.; and Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio. She had a registered nurses certificate for Missouri and Iowa.

She was a member of the American Nurses Association.

She served at Mercy Hospital, Burlington, as an instructor in the School of Nursing and as head nurse in pediatrics. She also was a nurse at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Joliet, Ill.; St. Mary Hospital, Quincy, Ill.; Ottumwa Hospital; and St. Rose Priory, Nauvoo. She was an instructor in the nursing program at Mount St. Clare College and also served as director of student health services. She taught junior high school in Chino, Calif. She served for four years as general secretary for the Clinton Franciscan congregation. From 1990 to 1996, she worked at the Bonaventure House, a residential care facility for AIDS patients in Chicago. She retired to the Mount St. Clare Convent in 1996. She lived at The Canticle from 1997 until moving to The Alverno Health Care Facility in 2003.

Survivors include two brothers, Edwin (Carol) Weber of Nauvoo and Deacon Paul (Meg) Weber of Catonsville, Md.; and one sister, Mrs. Mary (Oscar) Pieper-Axthelm of Ottumwa.

She was preceded in death by her parents and one brother.

Death date: March 25, 2006