Pauline Fritz
d. January 1, 1900
Pauline Fritz
Mankato Mortuary
1001 N. Riverfront Drive
Mankato, MN 56001
(507) 388-2202
After months of patient waiting, our beloved Sister Pauline Fritz, 86, died peacefully at 1:55 p.m., Monday, June 24, 2013, in Notre Dame Health Care Center, Our Lady of Good Counsel Campus, Mankato, Minnesota. In May 2010, she wrote, "As a result of chemo thirty years ago, I am dealing with congestive heart failure. It is a very weakening experience, but not painful. Thanks for the support of your prayers."
The funeral Mass for Sister Pauline, with Father Eugene Stenzel as presider, will be at 10:30 a.m., Monday, July 1, in Good Counsel Chapel. Burial of her cremains in our cemetery will follow at a later date. The vigil service is at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 30. We extend our sympathy to her sisters, Sister Marion Fritz, SSND, Ivona Wichmann, Rosemary (Marlin) Reiners, and Lorraine (David) Kaiser, and brothers Marvin (Jan) and Bob, to her sister-in-law, Helen, to her nieces and nephews and their families, to her former colleagues and students, and to her sisters in community, the School Sisters of Notre Dame. She was preceded in death by her parents, Edward and Eleanore (Diekmann) Fritz, and a brother, Loren.
Sister Pauline's autobiography begins, "When the Canadian snows were drifting high and March winds were glazing the countryside, the second of eight children arrived in the happy Catholic farm home of Ed and Eleanore Fritz. It was March 7, 1927. Two weeks later Dad hitched a sturdy pair of horses to the sled and brought the parish priest to our home for my Baptism. I was named Elizabeth Josephine after my two grandmothers." Three months later, the Fritz family " her parents, her older sister Marion, and Elizabeth (Betty) " moved from the farm near Yorkton, Saskatchewan, to a farm near Lafayette, Minnesota. Three sons were born there, and three daughters were born after the family moved to North Mankato.
Betty attended country school for five years and religious education classes when possible at Holy Trinity in New Ulm, a considerable distance from her home. Sister Pauline wrote later, "The little contact I had with the Sisters [of Christian Charity
1001 N. Riverfront Drive
Mankato, MN 56001
(507) 388-2202
After months of patient waiting, our beloved Sister Pauline Fritz, 86, died peacefully at 1:55 p.m., Monday, June 24, 2013, in Notre Dame Health Care Center, Our Lady of Good Counsel Campus, Mankato, Minnesota. In May 2010, she wrote, "As a result of chemo thirty years ago, I am dealing with congestive heart failure. It is a very weakening experience, but not painful. Thanks for the support of your prayers."
The funeral Mass for Sister Pauline, with Father Eugene Stenzel as presider, will be at 10:30 a.m., Monday, July 1, in Good Counsel Chapel. Burial of her cremains in our cemetery will follow at a later date. The vigil service is at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 30. We extend our sympathy to her sisters, Sister Marion Fritz, SSND, Ivona Wichmann, Rosemary (Marlin) Reiners, and Lorraine (David) Kaiser, and brothers Marvin (Jan) and Bob, to her sister-in-law, Helen, to her nieces and nephews and their families, to her former colleagues and students, and to her sisters in community, the School Sisters of Notre Dame. She was preceded in death by her parents, Edward and Eleanore (Diekmann) Fritz, and a brother, Loren.
Sister Pauline's autobiography begins, "When the Canadian snows were drifting high and March winds were glazing the countryside, the second of eight children arrived in the happy Catholic farm home of Ed and Eleanore Fritz. It was March 7, 1927. Two weeks later Dad hitched a sturdy pair of horses to the sled and brought the parish priest to our home for my Baptism. I was named Elizabeth Josephine after my two grandmothers." Three months later, the Fritz family " her parents, her older sister Marion, and Elizabeth (Betty) " moved from the farm near Yorkton, Saskatchewan, to a farm near Lafayette, Minnesota. Three sons were born there, and three daughters were born after the family moved to North Mankato.
Betty attended country school for five years and religious education classes when possible at Holy Trinity in New Ulm, a considerable distance from her home. Sister Pauline wrote later, "The little contact I had with the Sisters [of Christian Charity
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