Sr. Margaret was born in Jefferson City, Missouri to William Frederick Winkelmann and Anna Margaretha Kemna. She graduated from Notre Dame Academy in Quincy, Illinois, in 1934.
Sr. Margaret took her vows as a nun of the Maryknoll Sisters on Sept. 6, 1942, in Ossining, New York, and earned a degree from Maryknoll Teachers College in 1948. Se became a teacher and missionary for many years in Tanzania.
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Sister Margaret Rose Winkelmann, MM, a missioner and educator in Tanzania, died January 8, 2013, in Maryknoll Sisters Residential Care III. She was 96 years old and had been a Maryknoll Sister for over 70 years.
Born on December 10, 1916, in Jefferson City, MO, to William F. and Anna M. Kemna Winkelmann, Sister Margaret Rose was raised in Our Lady of Sorrows Parish, Archdiocese of St. Louis, and graduated from Notre Dame Academy, Quincy, IL, in 1934. She entered Maryknoll at their motherhouse in Ossining, NY, on September 6, 1942, and graduated from Maryknoll Teachers College in 1948.
Following graduation from MTC, Sister Margaret Rose was among the first Maryknoll Sisters to serve in Tanzania. The bishops asked the Sisters to staff additional secondary schools for young women. Assigned there in 1948, she remained in that country until 1992, helping to found three schools: Kowak Primary School in Musoma, Marian Girls Secondary School in Morogoro, and Rosary Girls Secondary School in Mwanza. She also held to establish a local religious community for women, the Immaculate Heart Sisters of Africa, and served as local and regional superior for the Maryknoll Sisters in East Africa from 1954 to 1969.
Sister Margaret Rose comments, "We taught the women that they had a contribution to make. We hoped that they would be able to take leadership positions." Former students, grateful for the education they received, keep in touch with Sister. Gertrude Mongella, one of the graduates, became Secretary-General of the Fourth World Conference on Women, was a member of Parliament in Tanzania and Ambassador to India.
Sister returned to the States for several years to do promotion work for the congregation as well as time to help family members in need of care. She happily returned to Tanzania in 1979 to teach English at a seminary in Musoma. After celebrating her 50th anniversary with all the sisters in Tanzania in 1992, she served from in the Maryknoll Sisters' Development Department, working in direct mail and with major donors at Maryknoll, NY, before retiring in 2004 and becoming part of Eden Community at the Maryknoll Sisters Center in Ossining, NY.
A Vesper service will be held for Sister Margaret Rose on Wednesday, January 16, 2013, at 4:15 p.m., followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, January 17, 2013, both to be held in the Annunciation Chapel at the Maryknoll Sisters Center in Ossining. Burial will be in the Maryknoll Sisters Cemetery at Maryknoll, NY. Dorsey Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
-Source: Obituary: Maryknoll Sister Margaret Winkelmann
Sr. Margaret took her vows as a nun of the Maryknoll Sisters on Sept. 6, 1942, in Ossining, New York, and earned a degree from Maryknoll Teachers College in 1948. Se became a teacher and missionary for many years in Tanzania.
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Sister Margaret Rose Winkelmann, MM, a missioner and educator in Tanzania, died January 8, 2013, in Maryknoll Sisters Residential Care III. She was 96 years old and had been a Maryknoll Sister for over 70 years.
Born on December 10, 1916, in Jefferson City, MO, to William F. and Anna M. Kemna Winkelmann, Sister Margaret Rose was raised in Our Lady of Sorrows Parish, Archdiocese of St. Louis, and graduated from Notre Dame Academy, Quincy, IL, in 1934. She entered Maryknoll at their motherhouse in Ossining, NY, on September 6, 1942, and graduated from Maryknoll Teachers College in 1948.
Following graduation from MTC, Sister Margaret Rose was among the first Maryknoll Sisters to serve in Tanzania. The bishops asked the Sisters to staff additional secondary schools for young women. Assigned there in 1948, she remained in that country until 1992, helping to found three schools: Kowak Primary School in Musoma, Marian Girls Secondary School in Morogoro, and Rosary Girls Secondary School in Mwanza. She also held to establish a local religious community for women, the Immaculate Heart Sisters of Africa, and served as local and regional superior for the Maryknoll Sisters in East Africa from 1954 to 1969.
Sister Margaret Rose comments, "We taught the women that they had a contribution to make. We hoped that they would be able to take leadership positions." Former students, grateful for the education they received, keep in touch with Sister. Gertrude Mongella, one of the graduates, became Secretary-General of the Fourth World Conference on Women, was a member of Parliament in Tanzania and Ambassador to India.
Sister returned to the States for several years to do promotion work for the congregation as well as time to help family members in need of care. She happily returned to Tanzania in 1979 to teach English at a seminary in Musoma. After celebrating her 50th anniversary with all the sisters in Tanzania in 1992, she served from in the Maryknoll Sisters' Development Department, working in direct mail and with major donors at Maryknoll, NY, before retiring in 2004 and becoming part of Eden Community at the Maryknoll Sisters Center in Ossining, NY.
A Vesper service will be held for Sister Margaret Rose on Wednesday, January 16, 2013, at 4:15 p.m., followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, January 17, 2013, both to be held in the Annunciation Chapel at the Maryknoll Sisters Center in Ossining. Burial will be in the Maryknoll Sisters Cemetery at Maryknoll, NY. Dorsey Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
-Source: Obituary: Maryknoll Sister Margaret Winkelmann
Sr. Margaret was born in Jefferson City, Missouri to William Frederick Winkelmann and Anna Margaretha Kemna. She graduated from Notre Dame Academy in Quincy, Illinois, in 1934.
Sr. Margaret took her vows as a nun of the Maryknoll Sisters on Sept. 6, 1942, in Ossining, New York, and earned a degree from Maryknoll Teachers College in 1948. Se became a teacher and missionary for many years in Tanzania.
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Sister Margaret Rose Winkelmann, MM, a missioner and educator in Tanzania, died January 8, 2013, in Maryknoll Sisters Residential Care III. She was 96 years old and had been a Maryknoll Sister for over 70 years.
Born on December 10, 1916, in Jefferson City, MO, to William F. and Anna M. Kemna Winkelmann, Sister Margaret Rose was raised in Our Lady of Sorrows Parish, Archdiocese of St. Louis, and graduated from Notre Dame Academy, Quincy, IL, in 1934. She entered Maryknoll at their motherhouse in Ossining, NY, on September 6, 1942, and graduated from Maryknoll Teachers College in 1948.
Following graduation from MTC, Sister Margaret Rose was among the first Maryknoll Sisters to serve in Tanzania. The bishops asked the Sisters to staff additional secondary schools for young women. Assigned there in 1948, she remained in that country until 1992, helping to found three schools: Kowak Primary School in Musoma, Marian Girls Secondary School in Morogoro, and Rosary Girls Secondary School in Mwanza. She also held to establish a local religious community for women, the Immaculate Heart Sisters of Africa, and served as local and regional superior for the Maryknoll Sisters in East Africa from 1954 to 1969.
Sister Margaret Rose comments, "We taught the women that they had a contribution to make. We hoped that they would be able to take leadership positions." Former students, grateful for the education they received, keep in touch with Sister. Gertrude Mongella, one of the graduates, became Secretary-General of the Fourth World Conference on Women, was a member of Parliament in Tanzania and Ambassador to India.
Sister returned to the States for several years to do promotion work for the congregation as well as time to help family members in need of care. She happily returned to Tanzania in 1979 to teach English at a seminary in Musoma. After celebrating her 50th anniversary with all the sisters in Tanzania in 1992, she served from in the Maryknoll Sisters' Development Department, working in direct mail and with major donors at Maryknoll, NY, before retiring in 2004 and becoming part of Eden Community at the Maryknoll Sisters Center in Ossining, NY.
A Vesper service will be held for Sister Margaret Rose on Wednesday, January 16, 2013, at 4:15 p.m., followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, January 17, 2013, both to be held in the Annunciation Chapel at the Maryknoll Sisters Center in Ossining. Burial will be in the Maryknoll Sisters Cemetery at Maryknoll, NY. Dorsey Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
-Source: Obituary: Maryknoll Sister Margaret Winkelmann
Sr. Margaret took her vows as a nun of the Maryknoll Sisters on Sept. 6, 1942, in Ossining, New York, and earned a degree from Maryknoll Teachers College in 1948. Se became a teacher and missionary for many years in Tanzania.
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Sister Margaret Rose Winkelmann, MM, a missioner and educator in Tanzania, died January 8, 2013, in Maryknoll Sisters Residential Care III. She was 96 years old and had been a Maryknoll Sister for over 70 years.
Born on December 10, 1916, in Jefferson City, MO, to William F. and Anna M. Kemna Winkelmann, Sister Margaret Rose was raised in Our Lady of Sorrows Parish, Archdiocese of St. Louis, and graduated from Notre Dame Academy, Quincy, IL, in 1934. She entered Maryknoll at their motherhouse in Ossining, NY, on September 6, 1942, and graduated from Maryknoll Teachers College in 1948.
Following graduation from MTC, Sister Margaret Rose was among the first Maryknoll Sisters to serve in Tanzania. The bishops asked the Sisters to staff additional secondary schools for young women. Assigned there in 1948, she remained in that country until 1992, helping to found three schools: Kowak Primary School in Musoma, Marian Girls Secondary School in Morogoro, and Rosary Girls Secondary School in Mwanza. She also held to establish a local religious community for women, the Immaculate Heart Sisters of Africa, and served as local and regional superior for the Maryknoll Sisters in East Africa from 1954 to 1969.
Sister Margaret Rose comments, "We taught the women that they had a contribution to make. We hoped that they would be able to take leadership positions." Former students, grateful for the education they received, keep in touch with Sister. Gertrude Mongella, one of the graduates, became Secretary-General of the Fourth World Conference on Women, was a member of Parliament in Tanzania and Ambassador to India.
Sister returned to the States for several years to do promotion work for the congregation as well as time to help family members in need of care. She happily returned to Tanzania in 1979 to teach English at a seminary in Musoma. After celebrating her 50th anniversary with all the sisters in Tanzania in 1992, she served from in the Maryknoll Sisters' Development Department, working in direct mail and with major donors at Maryknoll, NY, before retiring in 2004 and becoming part of Eden Community at the Maryknoll Sisters Center in Ossining, NY.
A Vesper service will be held for Sister Margaret Rose on Wednesday, January 16, 2013, at 4:15 p.m., followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, January 17, 2013, both to be held in the Annunciation Chapel at the Maryknoll Sisters Center in Ossining. Burial will be in the Maryknoll Sisters Cemetery at Maryknoll, NY. Dorsey Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
-Source: Obituary: Maryknoll Sister Margaret Winkelmann
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