M Josepha Forster
d. January 1, 1900
M Josepha Forster
Mankato Mortuary
1001 N. Riverfront Drive
Mankato, MN 56001
(507)388-2202
Our beloved Sister M. Josepha Forster, 95, died peacefully at 4:25 p.m., Monday, September 10, 2012, in Notre Dame Health Care Center, Our Lady of Good Counsel Campus, Mankato, Minnesota. Sister Josepha entered eternal glory exactly 100 years after the dedication of the Motherhouse and Academy of Our Lady of Good Counsel in 1912. Many sisters kept vigil with her in the days before her death.
The funeral Mass for Sister Josepha, with Father Ted Hottinger, S.J., as presider, will be at 10:30 a.m., Monday, September 17, in Good Counsel Chapel. Because Sister Josepha requested that her body be cremated immediately after death, her cremains will be buried in our cemetery following the Mass on Monday. The vigil service will be at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 16. The family is requesting a memorial Mass for Sister Josepha at the motherhouse in Munich at a later date. We extend our sympathy to her nieces and nephews in Germany, her former students and colleagues, and her sisters in community, the School Sisters of Notre Dame. She was preceded in death by her parents, Martin and Maria (Lieberth) Forster, her brothers Martin, Joseph, Georg, Konrad and Karl, and her sisters Rosa Welzhofer, Klara Ploss, Maria Huber, and Sister M. Osmunda, SSND (Ottilia).
Sister Josepha was born in Dorfen, Germany, June 1, 1917, and baptized Victoria in St. Mary's Church the same day. Her father Martin was an auto mechanic in Dorfen, and her mother Maria took care of the family of ten children, of which Victoria was the ninth. In her autobiography, Sister Josepha recalled, "In Dorfen, a small town in Upper Bavaria, I spent my first twelve years with my truly Christian parents, five brothers and four sisters. Many are the happy memories of this time, not outstanding or extraordinary, but so characteristic of thoroughly Catholic life." In another account, she told of contracting diphtheria when she was two, which caused her to become blind for three months. During this time, she stayed at an eye clinic in Munich. Her mother prayed to Our Lady of Alt"tting (a nearby shrine) for Victoria's recovery, and she did regain her sight. In that same account, Sister Josepha wrote about music in her family, "We did not have a piano, but there were other instruments to accompany our singing. [My brother
1001 N. Riverfront Drive
Mankato, MN 56001
(507)388-2202
Our beloved Sister M. Josepha Forster, 95, died peacefully at 4:25 p.m., Monday, September 10, 2012, in Notre Dame Health Care Center, Our Lady of Good Counsel Campus, Mankato, Minnesota. Sister Josepha entered eternal glory exactly 100 years after the dedication of the Motherhouse and Academy of Our Lady of Good Counsel in 1912. Many sisters kept vigil with her in the days before her death.
The funeral Mass for Sister Josepha, with Father Ted Hottinger, S.J., as presider, will be at 10:30 a.m., Monday, September 17, in Good Counsel Chapel. Because Sister Josepha requested that her body be cremated immediately after death, her cremains will be buried in our cemetery following the Mass on Monday. The vigil service will be at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 16. The family is requesting a memorial Mass for Sister Josepha at the motherhouse in Munich at a later date. We extend our sympathy to her nieces and nephews in Germany, her former students and colleagues, and her sisters in community, the School Sisters of Notre Dame. She was preceded in death by her parents, Martin and Maria (Lieberth) Forster, her brothers Martin, Joseph, Georg, Konrad and Karl, and her sisters Rosa Welzhofer, Klara Ploss, Maria Huber, and Sister M. Osmunda, SSND (Ottilia).
Sister Josepha was born in Dorfen, Germany, June 1, 1917, and baptized Victoria in St. Mary's Church the same day. Her father Martin was an auto mechanic in Dorfen, and her mother Maria took care of the family of ten children, of which Victoria was the ninth. In her autobiography, Sister Josepha recalled, "In Dorfen, a small town in Upper Bavaria, I spent my first twelve years with my truly Christian parents, five brothers and four sisters. Many are the happy memories of this time, not outstanding or extraordinary, but so characteristic of thoroughly Catholic life." In another account, she told of contracting diphtheria when she was two, which caused her to become blind for three months. During this time, she stayed at an eye clinic in Munich. Her mother prayed to Our Lady of Alt"tting (a nearby shrine) for Victoria's recovery, and she did regain her sight. In that same account, Sister Josepha wrote about music in her family, "We did not have a piano, but there were other instruments to accompany our singing. [My brother
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