She never forgot her family, her friends, her classmates, her community, her ministry, her birthplace Chicago and her Irish heritage. If there is one characteristic that defined Ann it was her faithful loyalty. All her immediate family preceded her in death, her parents Ruth and Henry, her sisters Rita Lockwood and Sister Mary James, a sister of St.
I want to extend sympathy and offer prayers to Sister Ann’s nieces, Nancy Gillis, Mary Trednick and Karen Harris and to her nephews, John Lockwood and Don Lockwood, to her classmates, to the many Oblates she accompanied as their director, to the parishioners she served, to her many friends to whom she was most faithful, especially John Erickson, Donna Cunningham and Monica Bartels and to the members of her Benedictine community. Scholastica or made online at the Mount’s web site (How appropriate that we should be celebrating this vigil for Sister Ann Diettrich on a Friday evening as she was known for her Friday evening porch parties. Becker-Dyer-Stanton Funeral Home (is in charge of arrangements. She is survived by nieces and nephews and her monastic family. Sister Ann was preceded in death by her parents, by her brother John Diettrich, and by her sisters Rita Lockwood and Sister Mary James Diettrich, C.S.A. When she returned to the monastery, she was a chaplain in Dooley Center, the monastery’s health care facility. From 1990-2008, she served as oblate director for the Mount’s Kansas City, Kansas, oblate group. After taking chaplaincy training at Bethany Hospital, she served as minister of care for the sick and elderly in parishes in Kansas City. With a bachelor’s degree in education and a master’s degree in early childhood education, Sister Ann served for thirty years as a primary and early childhood teacher in parish schools in Kansas and Missouri, as well as at Donnelly College’s childcare center. Her sister, Mary Ruth, was also a religious, a Sister of St. Scholastica in 1959 and made her final profession on Dec. She entered the Benedictines of Mount St. 13, 1939, one of four children of Ruth (Zeigea) and Henry Diettrich. Sister Ann was born in Evanston, Ill., on Oct. A Memorial Mass was celebrated Wednesday, July 7 at St. Scholastica, Atchison, Kan., died Friday, Oct. Sister Ann Diettrich, OSB, 80, a Benedictine sister of Mount St.
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