Obituary: Sister Mary Bede Baeten, CSJ
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Send to friendA funeral Mass was celebrated Feb. 12 at Nazareth Living Center chapel in South County for Sister Mary Bede Baeten, CSJ, a retired elementary school teacher.
Sister Mary Bede, 97, died Feb. 7 at Nazareth of congestive heart failure.
Born in West De Pere, Wis., she entered the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in 1931. She received a bachelor’s degree in education from Fontbonne College (now University) in Clayton in 1950.
Sister Mary Bede began her teaching career at St. Louis Cathedral School in the Central West End in the 1930s.
She taught at Holy Name School in North St. Louis from 1955-56. She also taught in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Texas and Wisconsin. She was coordinator of a foreign language listening center at a school in Green Bay, Wis., when she retired in 1990. She moved to Nazareth in 1999.
There were no immediate survivors. Burial was in Calvary Cemetery.
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