St. Cloud Times (Saint Cloud, Minnesota)24 Sep 1956, Mon Page 4
SISTER FLORA GOEBEL Sister Flora Goebel OSB, member of the St. Benedict priory at St. Joseph and former nurse at the St. Cloud hospital died Sunday following a lingering illness. She was in the 47th year of her religious profession. She was born in Remsen, Iowa, Feb. 21, 1889 a daughter of the late John and Josephine M or man Goebel, and entered the scholasticate in the fall of 1907. On July 10, 1909, she began her year in the nocitiaty and pronounced her first vows July 11, 1910. Sister Flora's first assignment was to St. Alexus hospital, Bis-mark, N.D., where she took nurses training. Following graduation she continued working there until 1339 when she volunteered for foreign missionary work and was sent to Kaifing, China, to assist a small group of Bendictine sisters conduct a dispensory. When war began they were interned and in 1943 returned to the United States on the Gripsholm the following years until 1949 she worked at the college and convent infirmary. From 1949 to 1955 she was a nurse at the St. Cloud hospital. Ill health forced her retirement. Surviving are three brothers, Nicholas, Bernard and Albert Schmieding, Madison; and sisters, Philomena Bendel, Chicago, IL.; Mrs. Anna Herreges, Minneapolis. The office of the dead will be read at 8 a.m. at the St. Benedict convent and will be followed by the solemn requiem mass at 9 a.m.
SISTER FLORA GOEBEL Sister Flora Goebel OSB, member of the St. Benedict priory at St. Joseph and former nurse at the St. Cloud hospital died Sunday following a lingering illness. She was in the 47th year of her religious profession. She was born in Remsen, Iowa, Feb. 21, 1889 a daughter of the late John and Josephine M or man Goebel, and entered the scholasticate in the fall of 1907. On July 10, 1909, she began her year in the nocitiaty and pronounced her first vows July 11, 1910. Sister Flora's first assignment was to St. Alexus hospital, Bis-mark, N.D., where she took nurses training. Following graduation she continued working there until 1339 when she volunteered for foreign missionary work and was sent to Kaifing, China, to assist a small group of Bendictine sisters conduct a dispensory. When war began they were interned and in 1943 returned to the United States on the Gripsholm the following years until 1949 she worked at the college and convent infirmary. From 1949 to 1955 she was a nurse at the St. Cloud hospital. Ill health forced her retirement. Surviving are three brothers, Nicholas, Bernard and Albert Schmieding, Madison; and sisters, Philomena Bendel, Chicago, IL.; Mrs. Anna Herreges, Minneapolis. The office of the dead will be read at 8 a.m. at the St. Benedict convent and will be followed by the solemn requiem mass at 9 a.m.
St. Cloud Times (Saint Cloud, Minnesota)24 Sep 1956, Mon Page 4
SISTER FLORA GOEBEL Sister Flora Goebel OSB, member of the St. Benedict priory at St. Joseph and former nurse at the St. Cloud hospital died Sunday following a lingering illness. She was in the 47th year of her religious profession. She was born in Remsen, Iowa, Feb. 21, 1889 a daughter of the late John and Josephine M or man Goebel, and entered the scholasticate in the fall of 1907. On July 10, 1909, she began her year in the nocitiaty and pronounced her first vows July 11, 1910. Sister Flora's first assignment was to St. Alexus hospital, Bis-mark, N.D., where she took nurses training. Following graduation she continued working there until 1339 when she volunteered for foreign missionary work and was sent to Kaifing, China, to assist a small group of Bendictine sisters conduct a dispensory. When war began they were interned and in 1943 returned to the United States on the Gripsholm the following years until 1949 she worked at the college and convent infirmary. From 1949 to 1955 she was a nurse at the St. Cloud hospital. Ill health forced her retirement. Surviving are three brothers, Nicholas, Bernard and Albert Schmieding, Madison; and sisters, Philomena Bendel, Chicago, IL.; Mrs. Anna Herreges, Minneapolis. The office of the dead will be read at 8 a.m. at the St. Benedict convent and will be followed by the solemn requiem mass at 9 a.m.
SISTER FLORA GOEBEL Sister Flora Goebel OSB, member of the St. Benedict priory at St. Joseph and former nurse at the St. Cloud hospital died Sunday following a lingering illness. She was in the 47th year of her religious profession. She was born in Remsen, Iowa, Feb. 21, 1889 a daughter of the late John and Josephine M or man Goebel, and entered the scholasticate in the fall of 1907. On July 10, 1909, she began her year in the nocitiaty and pronounced her first vows July 11, 1910. Sister Flora's first assignment was to St. Alexus hospital, Bis-mark, N.D., where she took nurses training. Following graduation she continued working there until 1339 when she volunteered for foreign missionary work and was sent to Kaifing, China, to assist a small group of Bendictine sisters conduct a dispensory. When war began they were interned and in 1943 returned to the United States on the Gripsholm the following years until 1949 she worked at the college and convent infirmary. From 1949 to 1955 she was a nurse at the St. Cloud hospital. Ill health forced her retirement. Surviving are three brothers, Nicholas, Bernard and Albert Schmieding, Madison; and sisters, Philomena Bendel, Chicago, IL.; Mrs. Anna Herreges, Minneapolis. The office of the dead will be read at 8 a.m. at the St. Benedict convent and will be followed by the solemn requiem mass at 9 a.m.
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