Sister David Blackburn OSF

BLACKBURN, BURNS

Posted By: Ruth Maring - Volunteer (email)
Date: 9/4/2006 at 19:57:05

The Clinton Herald
Published: August 29, 2006 01:36 pm

Sister David Blackburn OSF

Visitation: 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the Canticle, 841 13th Ave. North, where a rosary will be recited at 4 p.m. and Scripture service at 6:30 p.m.

SERVICES: 10 a.m. Friday at the Canticle Chapel. The Rev. Thomas Hennen will be officiating. Pape Funeral Home, Clinton, is in charge of arrangements.

CLINTON — Sister David Blackburn OSF, 87 of the Alverno Health Care Facility, Clinton, died Sunday at the facility.

Burial will be in St. Irenaeus Calvary Cemetery.

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

She was born Aug. 1, 1919, in Centerville to Charles C. and Josephine Burns Blackburn.

She attended Centerville Elementary School and graduated from Centerville High School. She attended Mount St. Clare College. She received her diploma in nursing from the St. Francis Hospital School of Nursing, Macomb, Ill. She received her Bachelor of Science in physical therapy from St. Louis University. She had additional studies at St. Francis Hospital, Peoria, Ill., St. John’s Hospital, Springfield, Ill., and Quincy (Ill.) College. She was a registered nurse in Iowa and Illinois.

She was a member of the American Physical Therapy Association and American Registry of Physical Therapists.

She joined the Sisters of St. Francis on Sept. 8, 1943, and professed her final vows on Aug. 12, 1949.

She spent most of her 42 years of active ministry in the health care field as a physical therapist, serving mainly in medical facilities then owned and staffed by the Clinton Franciscans. She was stationed at St. Francis Hospital, Macomb, from 1946 to 1949; St. Francis Hospital, Grinnell, 1949 to 1952; and Mercy Hospital, Burlington, 1955 to 1969. She continued her service in the Burlington area for an additional nine years working at the Burlington/Klein Memorial Hospital. Returning to Clinton in 1978, she established the physical therapy department at the Alverno Health Care Facility. She continued as director of the department until her retirement at the Mount St. Clare Convent in 1989. She lived at the Canticle from 1997 until moving to the Alverno in 2002.

Survivors include nieces and cousins.

She was preceded in death by her parents and two brothers.

Death date: Aug. 27, 2006