Obituary     

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.

Mary Madalene Niealnd
as a child

Henry Nieland with daughers,
Sr. M. Sigmunda and Sr. M. Florina

         
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