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Sister
Lioba Kelner, 93
Crookston
&endash; Sister Lioba Kelner, 93, died at Mount
St. Benedict Monastery on Friday, Jan. 10. She had
resided in the Health Center of the Monastery since
July, 2002.
Laura
Elizabeth Kelner was born in Bowman, N.D., the
first of nine children in the family of Edward and
Helen (Lorenz) Kelner, both natives of Austria and
Poland. She joined the Benedictine Community at
Mount St. Benedict in 1927. Sister Lioba served as
a teacher in the elementary parochial schools of
Thief River Falls, Red Lake Falls, Rosen, Mahnomen,
and East Grand Forks. She also taught in Sacred
Heart High School, East Grand Forks; St. Elizabeth
High School, Lefor, N.D., and Mount St. Bendict
Academy, Crookston. During her 40 years of teaching
she served as school administrator in Red Lake
Falls, Mahnomen and Detroit Lakes.
In
1969, Sister Lioba began the ministry of providing
food, clothing and reading materials as well as
funds to migrant workers, shut-ins and needy
persons in the Crookston area. From 1971 until
1993, her work included visiting inmates at the
Northwest Regional Correction Center.
Sister
Lioba was preceded in death by her parents, four
brothers and two sisters. She is survived by two
sisters, Rita Smith of Owings Mills, Maryland, and
Winifred Nielsen of Oak Lawn, Ill., several nieces
and nephews, and by the members of Mount St.
Benedict Monastery. A00003B2002JA29
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