Sister Marjorie Rosenau, SSND, 94, died June 21, 2025, at Benedictine Living Community - St. Gertrude's, Shakopee, Minnesota. Funeral services will be held Friday, June 27, 2025, at Windermere Chapel, 1705 Windermere Way, Shakopee, with Visitation at 10:00; Sharing of Memories at 10:30; and a Funeral Liturgy at 11:00. Livestreaming will be available at www.ssndcp.org/live/blc Burial in the Good Counsel Cemetery, Mankato, will follow at 2:15.
Sister Marjorie was born on the family farm near Meriden, Minnesota, on August 10, 1930. She graduated from Sleepy Eye St. Mary's High School in 1948 and entered the School Sisters of Notre Dame in Mankato that same year. After profession of First Vows in 1951 she taught elementary and junior high age students in several Minnesota Catholic Schools including Holy Rosary, North Mankato; Crucifixion, La Crescent; St. Felix, Wabasha; Epiphany, Coon Rapids; St. Wenceslaus, New Prague; and St. Michael, St. Michael. She also taught at St. Joseph, Spokane, Washington, and Immaculate Conception, Gilbertville, Iowa. Following her years of teaching, she served as a home health aide with Sisters Care and other care-giving organizations while living at St. Francis de Sales Convent in St. Paul. Sister Marjorie moved to Good Counsel Hill, Mankato, in 2019 and then, with other School Sisters of Note Dame, moved to Shakopee in 2022.
Sister Marjorie is survived by her sisters in community, the School Sisters of Notre Dame and SSND Associates, her brother, Paul (Sharon) Rosenau, and nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, Herbert and Sylvia (Anderson) Rosenau and her sisters Martha Rogers, Donna Carlson and Frances Walker. A longer obituary and a recording of her funeral will be available at www.ssndcp.org/obituaries Memorials may be directed to the School Sisters of Notre Dame; 11 Civic Center Plaza, Suite 310; Mankato, MN 56001.
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