Sr. Carol Sullentrup, SSND

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A funeral Mass will be celebrated for Sister Carol Sullentrup at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 14, in the School Sisters of Notre Dame Motherhouse Chapel, 320 E. Ripa Ave. in Lemay.

Sister Carol, a former nurse aide and caregiver of her retired co-religious School Sisters of Notre Dame, died Aug. 8 at the SSND Motherhouse from acute leukemia. She was 56.

A native of Washington, she entered the School Sisters of Notre Dame in 1974 from St. Francis Borgia Parish in Washington. She professed first vows in 1977 and final vows in 1985. She earned a bachelor of arts degree from the former Notre Dame College in St. Louis in 1976.

Sister Carol spent her life in SSND community and health care service. In 1990, she received a medical assistant degree with an emphasis in podiatry at Midwest Institute in St. Louis, which included a year's internship as a podiatric assistant. Sister Carol then began ministering to the sisters at Villa Gesu and working in a doctor's office in St. Louis.

From 1994-99, she ministered to the sisters at Villa Gesu and the motherhouse doing foot care. When Villa Gesu closed in 1999, she began a 10-year period of ministering as one of the SSND community care coordinators for the sisters at Anna House-The Sarah Community, the current retirement center, in Bridgeton.

Survivors include: three sisters, Nancy Mittendorf of Union, Sharon Boedges of Pacific and Lisa Holdmeier of Washington; eight brothers, Terry, Garry, Steve, Dennis, Christopher and Kenny Sullentrup, all of Washington, and Richard Sullentrup of St. James, Mo., and Mark Sullentrup of Linn, Mo. Burial will be in the motherhouse cemetery.