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2002
Sister Philomena
Vogler
 Sister
Philomena (Margarita) Vogler, 101, died November 25 at the Monastery of St.
Gertrude in Cottonwood.
She was born June 28, 1901, the eleventh child of Konrad
and Agnes Schallberger Vogler from Lungern, Ct. Obwalden, Switzerland. She
came to the United States in 1921 where she became a Benedictine Sister at St.
Gertrude’s in 1923.
Her work in the book bindery at St. Gertrude’s included
binding magazines and documents for St. Gertrude’s Academy and College,
Prairie High School, The Chronicle Printing Office, Nezperce Herald, and St.
Mary’s Hospital. She also did domestic work at St. Martin’s College in
Lacey, WA, St. Valentine’s Hospital in Wendell, ID, and Keuterville Public
School in Keuterville, ID; and kitchen work at St. Martin’s in Lacey, WA, Our
Lady of Consolation Hospital in Cottonwood, ID, and at St. Gertrude’s.
She loved caring for the plants at the monastery grotto,
cultivating flower gardens, and collecting and preparing herbs for medicinal
use. Her file contains a 1939 copy of The Herbalist Almanac.
From reading the magazines she bound Sister Vogler gleaned
vast knowledge of many things and gained a broad world view. Until the last few
years of her life she was keenly interested in and aware of world events. She
kept in touch with many family members and friends in Switzerland and throughout
the US. Two trips to her homeland to visit family remained highlights of her
life, as did the visits of her Swiss relatives who came to Cottonwood.
Feisty, mischievous, profoundly prayerful, strong-willed,
full of zest for life, Sister Vogler cared deeply for the community, worked hard
and exhorted others to do likewise. She thoroughly enjoyed her 100th birthday
celebration.
Sr. Vogler was preceded in death by her 10 brothers and
sisters. She is survived by many nieces and nephews.
A Vigil Service for Sister Vogler was held in the
Monastery chapel on Wednesday, November 27 at 8:30 a.m., followed by the Mass of
Christian Burial at 1:30 p.m. the same day. Rev. Meinrad Schallberger, OSB,
Monastery Chaplain, presided and Assistant Prioress Meg Sass, OSB, gave the
reflections.
Memorials may be made to the Monastery of St. Gertrude,
465 Keuterville Road, Cottonwood, ID 83522-5183. Funeral arrangements were under the
direction of Uhlorn Funeral Home in Cottonwood.
Sister Augustine
Uhlenkott
Sister Augustine (Elsie) Uhlenkott, OSB, 98, died at the
Monastery of St. Gertrude in Cottonwood, ID on August 27, 2002.
Sister Uhlenkott was born in Cottonwood to Joseph and
Amalia Frei Uhlenkott on October 23, 1903, the third
of six children. She made her Monastic Profession as a
Benedictine Sister at the Monastery of St. Gertrude on August
15, 1921.
She earned her degree in education from Lewiston Normal
School and Mt. St.Scholastica College in Atchison, KS, and a Masters in music at
the University of Idaho. She taught in the parochial
schools in Nezperce, Keuterville, St. Maries, and
Cottonwood, and was a teacher and principal at Greencreek
High School and St. Gertrude’s Academy in Cottonwood. These
educational and leadership roles served her well during her years as Prioress
of the Monastery of St. Gertrude from 1955-1967.
Among her special accomplishments
as Prioress was a renewed emphasis on praying and singing the
Divine Office daily in the name of the church for the whole world. With the
increase in the number of new members in the 1950’s and 60’s Sister Uhlenkott
persuaded the community to establish St. Gertrude’s College, to expand
the number of schools they staffed throughout the diocese, and to build
a gymnasium for St. Gertrude’s Academy, a rectory for the chaplain, St.
Benedicts Nursing Home in Jerome, ID, and St. Mary’s Hospital in Cottonwood.
During her second term as Prioress she was elected
President of the Congregation (now Federation) of St.
Gertrude, an organization of about 15 communities of
Benedictine Sisters at that time. It was in this role that she
gathered Sisters from several communities, including St. Gertrude’s, to begin missionary work in Colombia, South America.
From 1971-87 Sister Uhlenkott taught music at St. Mary’s
and Sacred Heart Schools in Boise. The last 14 years
she had been retired at the monastery where she spent
most of her time praying for the community and the needs of the
world.
She is remembered as a strong, intelligent, caring woman
with a charism for effective leadership and a zest for
life. No one can count the number of afghans she
crocheted nor the number of pinochle games she usually won.
She is survived by her brother Alphonse of Cottonwood, and
many nieces, nephews and cousins.
A Vigil Service was held in the Chapel at the Monastery of
St. Gertrude on Friday, August 30 at 7:30 pm. The Mass
of Christian Burial was celebrated there on Saturday,
August 31, at 1:30 pm. Rev. Meinrad Schallberger, OSB,
the monastery’s chaplain, presided.
Memorials may be made to the Monastery of St. Gertrude,
465 Keuterville Road, Cottonwood, ID 83522-5183, or online at www.StGertrudes.org.
Funeral arrangements were under the direction of Uhlorn
Funeral Home, Cottonwood.
Sister Alexia Kaschmitter
 Sister
Alexia (Rosa Maria) Kaschmitter, 85, died at the Monastery of St. Gertrude,
Cottonwood, May 2, 2002. The third of ten children, she was born January 19,
1917, to Joseph and Anna Weber Kaschmitter of Denver, ID.
Sr. Alexia entered the monastery in Cottonwood in
1931 where she made her Profession as a Benedictine sister in 1933. Her 30 years
of teaching took her to Nezperce, Genesee, Cottonwood, Greencreek, Nampa,
Grangeville, Pocatello, and Boise, ID, Colton and Pomeroy, WA, and Waunakee, WI.
Sr. Kaschmitter loved teaching, especially preparing second graders for their
first Holy Communion.
After retiring from teaching in 1965, she did
housekeeping at the monastery and for her aging mother who lived with her
brother Richard. Following their mother’s death, she continued to do
housekeeping for Richard. In 1996 she fully retired and did many small jobs at
the monastery. People remember Sr. Kaschmitter for her devotion and dedication,
faithfulness to duty, deep attachment to and love for her family, and enjoyment
of nature’s beauty.
She is survived by her sisters Gertrude
(Lawrence) Broemeling, Genesee and Loretta (John) Ready, Lewiston, and her
brother Ted (Regina) Kaschmitter, Cottonwood. Her sisters Agnes, Dorothy, and
Louise, and her brothers John, William and Richard preceded her in death. She
was very fond of her many nieces and nephews and their families.
A Vigil Service was held in the Monastery chapel
in Cottonwood on Sunday, May 5, at 7:00 p.m. A Mass of Christian Burial was
celebrated on Monday, May 6, 2:00 p.m. in the Monastery chapel with Rev. Meinrad
Schallberger, OSB, Monastery Chaplain, presiding and Sister Jean Lalande, OSB,
Prioress, giving the Reflections.
Memorials may be made to the Monastery of St.
Gertrude, 465 Keuterville Road, Cottonwood, ID 83522-5183, or online at www.StGertrudes.org.
Uhlorn Funeral Home, Cottonwood, was in charge of
funeral arrangements.
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Benedictine
Sisters, Monastery of St. Gertrude, Cottonwood, Idaho
