CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF Sister Roswitha Zavadil

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Sister Roswitha Zavadil

YANKTON, S.D. - Sister Roswitha Zavadil, 89, Yankton, S.D., died May 
30, 1999, at Avera Sacred Heart Hospital, Yankton.

The vespers wake service is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the 
Bishop Marty Chapel.

Funeral services are June 3 at Sacred Heart Monastery chapel.

Burial is in the monastery cemetery.

A complete obituary will appear in next week's Cedar County News.

Sister Roswitha was born Gertrude Zavadil Aug. 31, 1909, to John and 
Magdalena (Haberman) Zavadil at Menominee.  She attended District 
School #6 a mile from her home.  In 1924 she enrolled in Mount Marty 
Academy.  She graduated in 1928 and attended summer school in 
Aberdeen and qualified for a third grade teaching certificate.  Her 
long ministry in education began in 1928 in a seven-pupil rural school 
in Grindstone, S.D.

After a year of teaching she enrolled in St. Teresa's College in 
Winona, Minn., where she earned a bachelor's degree with majors in 
history and German.  After graduating in 1933 she taught for two years 
in District School #26 in Hartington. She entered Sacred Heart 
Monastery in 1935 and made first Profession in June 1937, receiving 
the name Roswitha.  She earned a master's degree in 1941 from Catholic 
University of America, with a major in English and a minor in 
philosophy.  Post-graduate studies included summers at St. Louis 
University, University of Nebraska and Marquette.

Her post-elementary teaching career began at Mount Marty High School.
She served as principal in Salem and at Mount Marty for a total of 14 
years. She taught at Mount Marty College for 16 years beginning in 1965, 
during the regular academic year and most summers.

She retired from teaching in 1981 and joined the alumni office as an 
assistant, a position she filled until a few months before her death.
She kept up-to-date information on alumni and compiled much of the 
alumni news section of the MMC Update.  A significant part of her 
ministry was personal letter writing to many alumni.

She served as foreign student advisor for three years, was involved in 
tutoring, volunteering at Sister James Nursing Home and helping with 
Birthright Hotline. She served as secretary to the monastery council 
for many years and as board member for Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital, 
Avera Sacred Heart and St. Michael's Hospital.

In 1987, the Midwest District of the Council for Advancement and Support 
of Education selected her the eight-state Volunteer of the Year.  She 
received the college's Distinguished Service to Mount Marty award the 
previous June.

She is survived by her Benedictine sisters, several nieces and nephews, 
a host of friends of the Mount Marty Alumni Association and all who knew 
her.

She was preceded in death by her parents and 11 brothers and sisters.

Memorials may be designated to the Sister Roswitha Zavadil Scholarship 
at Mount Marty College.

 

 

Wednesday, June 2, 1999-CEDAR COUNTY NEWS