Sister de Montfort Knightley, OSB, 86, a Benedictine Sister of Mount St. Scholastica, Atchison, Kans., died March 16, 2013, at the monastery after a brief illness. The vigil service will be Tuesday, March 19, at 7 pm in the monastery chapel, and the Mass of Resurrection will be offered there March 20 at 10:30am.
Sister de Montfort was born to William John, Sr., and Mary Catherine Roach Knightley August 18, 1926, and baptized Frances Irene at Blessed Sacrament parish, Wichita, Kans. She graduated from Blessed Sacrament and from Cathedral High School, Wichita. She earned her B.S. in mathematics with a minor in chemistry from Mount St. Scholastica College in 1948 and entered the Mount community in June 1948. She earned a Master of Science in mathematics from Kansas State University in 1957 and a master's degree from Notre Dame in math and computer science in 1966.
For 50 years, Sister de Montfort taught mathematics in high schools in Kansas, Missouri, and Colorado, and in several colleges of the area. She also helped to initiate students into the intricacies of computer use and programming. She particularly relished her 16 years at Lillis High School and five years at Notre Dame de Sion, in Kansas City, Mo., and the five summers she taught at Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tenn. She delighted in her computer science students at Mount St. Scholastica Academy, her final assignment. Sister de Montfort was community treasurer, headed the steering committee in the second year of the community senate, and tutored students in math during her retirement. She and her students have an enviable record of awards and recognitions from state and national mathematics organizations and contests.
Sister de Montfort was preceded in death by her parents, her brother William John Knightley, Jr., and sister Teresa Marie Knightley Farrell. She is survived by cousins and her monastic family.
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Sister de Montfort was born to William John, Sr., and Mary Catherine Roach Knightley August 18, 1926, and baptized Frances Irene at Blessed Sacrament parish, Wichita, Kans. She graduated from Blessed Sacrament and from Cathedral High School, Wichita. She earned her B.S. in mathematics with a minor in chemistry from Mount St. Scholastica College in 1948 and entered the Mount community in June 1948. She earned a Master of Science in mathematics from Kansas State University in 1957 and a master's degree from Notre Dame in math and computer science in 1966.
For 50 years, Sister de Montfort taught mathematics in high schools in Kansas, Missouri, and Colorado, and in several colleges of the area. She also helped to initiate students into the intricacies of computer use and programming. She particularly relished her 16 years at Lillis High School and five years at Notre Dame de Sion, in Kansas City, Mo., and the five summers she taught at Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tenn. She delighted in her computer science students at Mount St. Scholastica Academy, her final assignment. Sister de Montfort was community treasurer, headed the steering committee in the second year of the community senate, and tutored students in math during her retirement. She and her students have an enviable record of awards and recognitions from state and national mathematics organizations and contests.
Sister de Montfort was preceded in death by her parents, her brother William John Knightley, Jr., and sister Teresa Marie Knightley Farrell. She is survived by cousins and her monastic family.
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Sister de Montfort Knightley, OSB, 86, a Benedictine Sister of Mount St. Scholastica, Atchison, Kans., died March 16, 2013, at the monastery after a brief illness. The vigil service will be Tuesday, March 19, at 7 pm in the monastery chapel, and the Mass of Resurrection will be offered there March 20 at 10:30am.
Sister de Montfort was born to William John, Sr., and Mary Catherine Roach Knightley August 18, 1926, and baptized Frances Irene at Blessed Sacrament parish, Wichita, Kans. She graduated from Blessed Sacrament and from Cathedral High School, Wichita. She earned her B.S. in mathematics with a minor in chemistry from Mount St. Scholastica College in 1948 and entered the Mount community in June 1948. She earned a Master of Science in mathematics from Kansas State University in 1957 and a master's degree from Notre Dame in math and computer science in 1966.
For 50 years, Sister de Montfort taught mathematics in high schools in Kansas, Missouri, and Colorado, and in several colleges of the area. She also helped to initiate students into the intricacies of computer use and programming. She particularly relished her 16 years at Lillis High School and five years at Notre Dame de Sion, in Kansas City, Mo., and the five summers she taught at Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tenn. She delighted in her computer science students at Mount St. Scholastica Academy, her final assignment. Sister de Montfort was community treasurer, headed the steering committee in the second year of the community senate, and tutored students in math during her retirement. She and her students have an enviable record of awards and recognitions from state and national mathematics organizations and contests.
Sister de Montfort was preceded in death by her parents, her brother William John Knightley, Jr., and sister Teresa Marie Knightley Farrell. She is survived by cousins and her monastic family.
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Sister de Montfort was born to William John, Sr., and Mary Catherine Roach Knightley August 18, 1926, and baptized Frances Irene at Blessed Sacrament parish, Wichita, Kans. She graduated from Blessed Sacrament and from Cathedral High School, Wichita. She earned her B.S. in mathematics with a minor in chemistry from Mount St. Scholastica College in 1948 and entered the Mount community in June 1948. She earned a Master of Science in mathematics from Kansas State University in 1957 and a master's degree from Notre Dame in math and computer science in 1966.
For 50 years, Sister de Montfort taught mathematics in high schools in Kansas, Missouri, and Colorado, and in several colleges of the area. She also helped to initiate students into the intricacies of computer use and programming. She particularly relished her 16 years at Lillis High School and five years at Notre Dame de Sion, in Kansas City, Mo., and the five summers she taught at Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tenn. She delighted in her computer science students at Mount St. Scholastica Academy, her final assignment. Sister de Montfort was community treasurer, headed the steering committee in the second year of the community senate, and tutored students in math during her retirement. She and her students have an enviable record of awards and recognitions from state and national mathematics organizations and contests.
Sister de Montfort was preceded in death by her parents, her brother William John Knightley, Jr., and sister Teresa Marie Knightley Farrell. She is survived by cousins and her monastic family.
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