M Rosanne Eggert
d. January 1, 1900
M Rosanne Eggert
Our beloved Sister M. Rosanne Eggert died peacefully at Good Counsel Convent, Mankato, Minnesota, January 21, 2008, at 9:25 a.m. She had suffered a stroke earlier in the month. Her sister, Sister M. Nora, and several other sisters were present with her when she was called home to God, the God she loved and served so generously over her long life of 93 years. Her long-time prayer for a "quick and happy death" was answered.
The Funeral Mass for Sister Rosanne, with Father Ted Hottinger, SJ, as celebrant, will be on January 24, with Community Vespers the evening before. Loving sympathy to Sister Nora, the last of the Eggert family, to her nieces and nephews, to all the members of her family, and to her sisters in community, the School Sisters of Notre Dame. She was preceded in death by her parents, Frank and Catherine (Kaczmarek) Eggert, her sisters Bernice Eggert, Helen Prohott, Mary Eggert, Elizabeth Eggert and Emily Scepurek, and her brothers Aloysius, Joseph, Leo, Adalbert and Peter. Three of them, Bernice, Mary and Aloysius, died in early childhood.
Sister Rosanne was born January 1, 1915, and baptized Anne Rose two days later in St. Adalbert's Church, Silver Lake, Minnesota. She was the tenth of twelve children, born to Catherine, a Polish immigrant and Frank Eggert, a German immigrant, who farmed near Silver Lake. She attended St. Adalbert's School for eight years, with School Sisters of Notre Dame as her teachers, including Sister M. Jolanta, Sister M. Josephine, and Sister Emmerentia.
She remembered her early sacramental life, "I made my First Holy Communion at the age of ten on May 17, 1925. This, I thought, was the happiest day of my life when my parents, sisters and brothers, and other relatives were present at the Mass and together with me received the Precious Body and Blood of Christ. I received Confirmation on October 21, 1929, from His Excellency Bishop Dowling."
At this time, too, she became aware of her vocation. "All these years in school I had been wanting to go away to be a Sister, but was hesitating because I feared that I wouldn't like it. Years went by and I was still thinking about it."
When she was 20, Anne worked away from home, but went home often because she was lonesome. A few years later she went to work for a devout Catholic family in Minneapolis. "But as time went on, I wanted something else. During this time [Lent, 1941
The Funeral Mass for Sister Rosanne, with Father Ted Hottinger, SJ, as celebrant, will be on January 24, with Community Vespers the evening before. Loving sympathy to Sister Nora, the last of the Eggert family, to her nieces and nephews, to all the members of her family, and to her sisters in community, the School Sisters of Notre Dame. She was preceded in death by her parents, Frank and Catherine (Kaczmarek) Eggert, her sisters Bernice Eggert, Helen Prohott, Mary Eggert, Elizabeth Eggert and Emily Scepurek, and her brothers Aloysius, Joseph, Leo, Adalbert and Peter. Three of them, Bernice, Mary and Aloysius, died in early childhood.
Sister Rosanne was born January 1, 1915, and baptized Anne Rose two days later in St. Adalbert's Church, Silver Lake, Minnesota. She was the tenth of twelve children, born to Catherine, a Polish immigrant and Frank Eggert, a German immigrant, who farmed near Silver Lake. She attended St. Adalbert's School for eight years, with School Sisters of Notre Dame as her teachers, including Sister M. Jolanta, Sister M. Josephine, and Sister Emmerentia.
She remembered her early sacramental life, "I made my First Holy Communion at the age of ten on May 17, 1925. This, I thought, was the happiest day of my life when my parents, sisters and brothers, and other relatives were present at the Mass and together with me received the Precious Body and Blood of Christ. I received Confirmation on October 21, 1929, from His Excellency Bishop Dowling."
At this time, too, she became aware of her vocation. "All these years in school I had been wanting to go away to be a Sister, but was hesitating because I feared that I wouldn't like it. Years went by and I was still thinking about it."
When she was 20, Anne worked away from home, but went home often because she was lonesome. A few years later she went to work for a devout Catholic family in Minneapolis. "But as time went on, I wanted something else. During this time [Lent, 1941
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