CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - PETRONELLA Sister M. (dau. of Agatha Uhing)

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Cedar County News 2/24/1927


Sister Petronella Buried at Yankton  CCN 2-24-1927

Daughter of Mrs. Agatha Uhing passes away at Pierre

Burial services for Sister M. Petronella, daughter of Mrs. Agatha Uhing,
were held at the chapel of the O.S.B. convent at Yankton last Tuesday 
morning, Rev. Ferdiand Schuettgen officiating.  Interment was made in the 
private burial place belonging to the sisters near the Sacred Heart 
Hospital. 

Sister Petronella who was 56 years old at the time of her death had been 
suffering from paralytic strokes for some time when she finally passed 
away in St. Mary’s hospital at Pierre. She was born October 24, 1871, at 
Westpoint and the age of 8 moved to Cedar county with her parents where 
she remained until her entrance in the convent at the age of 16. For 33 
years she worked with the Sioux Indians at Fort Yates and at the time of 
her death was stationed at Pierre, SD.

Besides her aged mother, Sister Petronella is survived by three sisters, 
Mrs. Mary Suing, Mrs. Theresa Wibelhaus, and Mrs. Ida Kleinschidt, and 
four brothers Fred, Louis, Henry and Herman Uhing of near Hartington.