We are blessed with employees who demonstrate our core values of hospitality, simplicity and peacemaking in their work.
 
 

Our Employees

Our Monastic Community

We are blessed with employees who demonstrate our core values of hospitality, simplicity and peacemaking in their work. Benedictine life is about community and our employees are an integral part of this life. With their help, we are able to maintain our monastic lifestyle and ministries.

They provide

  • delicious meals served to guests, retreatants and Sisters
     
  • clean and well-maintained buildings
     
  • functioning and smooth business operations
     
  • creative ways to partner with the public and ongoing information to share about our community
     
  • excellent care for our elder sisters that allows them to continue living at home.
     
Business Office
Janis Lance - CFO
Judy Snyder - Administrative Assistant
Sue Tacke - Staff Accountant


Development
Michele Byers - Office Manager
Jacqueline Bradish - Graphic Designer/Web Developer
Carolyn Radokovich - Development Manager


Hair Care
Mary Duuck


Housekeeping
Shirley Bower
Michelle Gehring
Debra Graham
Peggy Matson
 

Infirmary
Rose Gehring
Hildie Miller
 

Kitchen
Dolores Enneking
Bonnie Gehring
Peggy Lovell
Donna Nuxoll
Jeannette Nuxoll
 

Liturgy
 

Maintenance & Operations
Sandy Enneking
John Remacle
 

Museum
Lyle Wirtanen - Director
 

Spirit Center
Mary Kreis Schmidt - Administrator

 

 

Monastery employees, 2008

Mary Schmidt at Spirit Center

Janis Lance (left) with Sister Emagene Warren

Lyle Wirtanen at the museum with a school tour group

Clockwise from top of page
Rose Frei at work in the infirmary; Jeannette Nuxoll, hired in 1976, prepares a meal; Donna Nuxoll prepares dessert; monastery employees, 2008; Mary Schmidt at Spirit Center; Janis Lance (left) with Sister Emagene Warren. Janis serves as the first lay member on our Federation Finance Committee; Lyle Wirtanen at the Historical Museum at St. Gertrude with a school tour group.


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465 Keuterville Road, Cottonwood, Idaho 83522-5183    Phone: 208-962-3224    Fax: 208-962-7212    E-mail:  monastery@stgertrudes.org
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