Rosemary Nohava Nohava

Mankato Mortuary
388-2202

As the Mankato Province gathered for a weekend of closure and celebration, our beloved Sister Rosemary Nohava, 92, died peacefully at 12:10 a.m. on Saturday, June 4, 2011, at Good Counsel Provincial House, Mankato, Minnesota. Her sister, Sister M. Yvonne, and Sisters Janet Wermerskirchen and Shirley Steines were present with her when she died.

The funeral Mass for Sister Rosemary, with Father Eugene Stenzel as presider, will be on Thursday, June 9, at 10:30 a.m., in Good Counsel Chapel, followed by burial in our cemetery. The vigil service will be at 7:00 p.m. on June 8. Loving sympathy to her older sister, Sister Yvonne Nohava, SSND, who so lovingly cared for Sister Rosemary these past years, and her sisters Julia (Roy) Washa and Theresa Zitzow, her sister-in-law Clara Nohava, nieces and nephews and their families, her former students and colleagues, and her sisters in community, the School Sisters of Notre Dame. She was preceded in death by her parents, Frank and Mary (Jirik) Nohava, her stepmother Mary (Malecha) Nohava, her twin sister, Sister M. Lillian, SSND, her sisters Agnes Hincks, Josephine Mamer, Catherine Frank, Leona Tupa, and Magdalen Nohava, and her brothers William, John (who died at age 14), Francis (who died as an infant), Francis and Johnny.

A week before Christmas, December 18, 1918, double joy entered the Nohava home in Lonsdale when identical twins were born. Named Rose and Mary, together they weighed five pounds. Mary, our future Sister Rosemary, was born first and was about one-half pound heavier. She later commented, "We can boast of being incubated in the oven and baptized [the next day