Bernadette Mary Schirmer

1921 - 2013  (91 years)

• Name	Bernadette Mary Schirmer
  Born	5 Dec 1921	Newark, Essex, New Jersey, USA   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Name	Sister Loretta, OSB; Bernie
  Occupation	Benedictine Nun
  Reference Number	PERS220
  Residence	5 Apr 1930	63 Crawford St., Newark, Essex, New Jersey, USA   [2]
  Died	26 May 2013	Mount St. Scholastica College, 801 S. 8th St., Atchison, Atchison, Kansas, USA
  Person ID	I218	Zellner Genealogy
  Last Modified	21 Oct 2020

  
  

  Father	August Henry Schirmer,   b. 17 Dec 1889, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA ,   d. 19 Oct 1969, Hillside, Union, New Jersey, USA  (Age 79 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Mary Frances Mager,   b. 9 Mar 1889, Newark, Essex, New Jersey, USA ,   d. 24 Dec 1957, Hillside, Union, New Jersey, USA  (Age 68 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	20 Oct 1915	Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, 528 Martin Luther King Blvd, Newark, Essex, New Jersey, USA   [1, 3]
  Reference Number	MARR760
  Documents		1920 U.S. Census NJ, Essex, Newark, Ward 6, ED157, P6-B, August Schirmer Family
  		1930 U.S. Census NJ, Essex, Newark, Ward 9, ED7-662, P9-B, August Schirmer Family
  Recordings		2009-08-13 "Story Corps" Interview with Sr. Loretta "Bernie" Schirmer
  Family ID	F76	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 5 Dec 1921 - Newark, Essex, New Jersey, USA Residence - 5 Apr 1930 - 63 Crawford St., Newark, Essex, New Jersey, USA Died - 26 May 2013 - Mount St. Scholastica College, 801 S. 8th St., Atchison, Atchison, Kansas, USA  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Photos

  Anna Mager Zellner, Sr. Loretta (Bernadette) Schirmer, Jotty Mager, Gertrude Mager Wolf

  
  

• Notes

  5/28/2013 9:33:00 AM Sister Loretta Schirmer, OSB Sister Loretta Schirmer, OSB, 91, a Benedictine Sister of Mount St. Scholastica, Atchison, died at the monastery on May 26, 2013. The vigil service will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 29 in the monastery chapel, and the Mass of Resurrection will be there at 10:30 Thursday, May 30. Sister Loretta was born in Newark, N.J. to August H. and Mary Mager Schirmer. After graduating from Benedictine Academy in Elizabeth, N.J., she came to Mount St. Scholastica for college and entered the community in 1940. After a few years as an elementary teacher, she pursued the study of home economics. She received her master's degree in food and nutrition, with an emphasis in institutional management, from Kansas State University, and worked in food service at the monastery and at Mount St. Scholastica College. She served as a teacher, principal and librarian at numerous schools in the Kansas City area (Lillis High School, St. Pius X-Mission, St. Benedict and Sacred Heart Schools - Kansas City, Kansas), in Maryville and St. Joseph, Mo., in Atchison, and Baileyville, as well as supervisor of the residence hall for Mount St. Scholastica Academy. She was predeceased by her parents, her brother William, and her sisters Sister Mary Austin Schirmer, Catherine Schirmer and Elizabeth Burke. She is survived by her sisters Mary Agnes Schoenberger, Margaret Conlin, Teresa Piccoli, and Anne Marie Cuff, by nieces and nephews and by her monastic family. Becker-Dyer-Stanton Funeral Home (www.beckerdyer.com) is in charge of arrangements. Memorials may be sent to Mount St. Scholastica or online at the Mount’s web site. ------------

  
  

• Sources

  [S56] Das Mager-Buch: Geschichte einer Familie aus vier Jahrhunderten (Erganzungsband zum "Mager-Buch" 1935), Dr. Edwart Mager, (Name: Freiburg im Breisgau, 1972;), 81. [S15] 1930 U.S. Census, Population Schedule; NARA Microfilm Publication T626, NJ, Essex, Newark, Ward 9. ED7-662, P9-B. [S168] Parish Register of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception, Newark, New Jersey.