Mary Magdalene Nieland 1892-1972
Sister Mary Sigmunda, FSPA
The Breda News, March 1972
Area
relatives have received word of the death of Sr. M. Sigmunda Nieland,
a member of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, on March
26 at Villa St. Joseph, LaCrosse, Wis.
Funeral rites will be held at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the
St. Rose Convent Chapel at LaCrosse.
Sr. M. Sigmunda was born June 26, 1892, on a farm
northwest of Breda and was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Nieland.
Brothers and a sister survive; Mrs. Anna Wittry, Louis,
Herman and Ben Nieland of Breda; Joe and Will Nieland of Carroll.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Nieland left Monday to attend the
funeral. They returned last night.
From the FSPA Archives
Sister Mary Sigmunda entered the convent on
August 19,1909. Her education at the time of her admission was about
the sixth grade. Rev. G.H. Luehrsmann, the pastor of St. Bernard
Catholic Church in Breda, Iowa, recommended her to the order. She
made her first profession July 2, 1913 and her final profession
July 2, 1919.
Sister's ministry was teaching. She began teaching
in 1914, with her first class a 4th grade class at Marathon, Wisconsin.
She continued to teach in the elementary grade at Dorchester, Wisconsin
and at Spokane, Washington. She then became a high school teacher
and taught at Bozeman, Montana, New Vienna, West Point, Marycliff,
Aquinas, Bozeman, Lima, and Marycliff from 1925 to 1967. She then
was semi-retired and lived at St. Rose Convent. Her last years were
spent at Villa St. Joseph, the retirement home of the order, near
LaCrosse.
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