Juliana Schwab

The Mass of Christian burial for Sister Juliana (Margaret) Schwab OSB, 86 of the Sacred Heart Monastery, Richardton will be 10:00 a. m. , Tuesday, April 5, 2005 at the Monastery Chapel with Father David Wolf, OSB as celebrant and Sr. Marie Hunkler, prioress, presiding at the monastic funeral rites. Burial will follow in the Sacred Heart Monastery Cemetery. Visitation will be Sunday, April, 3, 2005 from 9:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m. at Stevenson-Mischel-Olson Chapel, Dickinson, continuing on Monday, from 9:00 a. m. to 9:00 p. m. with a wake service at 7:00 p. m. at the Sacred Heart Monastery Chapel. Visitation will continue on Monday, one hour prior to the Funeral Mass. Sister Juliana died Thursday, March 31, 2005 at Sacred Heart Monastery after a courageous battle with cancer. Sister Juliana was born August 11, 1918, on a farm near Hazen, North Dakota, the seventh of fifteen children of John and Julia (Heinz) Schwab. She attended a one room country school, and a year after graduation entered Sacred Heart Monastery, then located at Garrison. She completed high school at Garrison. After completing her novitiate and making her first monastic profession in 1939, she was sent to St. Mary?s School of Nursing in Pierre, South Dakota. In 1942 she graduated from nursing and also made her final monastic commitment as a Benedictine Sister. She also began her life-long nursing profession. For the next fourteen years she was a staff nurse at St. Luke?s Hospital in Crosby, North Dakota, which was newly acquired by the Benedictine Sisters of Garrison. At that time the total hospital staff was about 10 to 12 people, who took care of 17 to 20 patients per day. After a course in administration, she served as administrator at St. Luke?s from 1956 to 1966, during which time she supervised the construction of a new hospital. After a year at St. John?s Hospital in Fargo, she was assigned nursing director at St. Vincent?s Care Center in Bismarck for ten years. In 1977 she returned to Crosby to serve as administrator until the hospital was turned over to the local community in 1984. Sr. Juliana then became director of health care for the Sisters at Sacred Heart Monastery in Richardton, a position she held until her health failed. Sr. Juliana was president of the North Dakota Catholic Hospital Conference , the North Dakota State Hospital Association, and both the District and Catholic Nurse?s Association. She served on the governing boards of St. Vincent?s Care Center and Marillac Manor in Bismarck. In the monastery she held the positions of subprioress and council and board member. Not one to sit still, she found ways to use her energy in assisting with every monastery activity and project. When there was a task to be done or a project to be planned, someone would inevitably say, ?Get Sister Juliana. ? She also enjoyed her hobbies of playing bridge and scrabble, crocheting, tatting, making greeting cards, feeding the birds, and putting puzzles together. Survivors include: one brother: Ralph (Dorothy) Schwab, Rapid City, SD; two sisters: Barbara Kompish, Billings, MT and Sr. Barbara Ann Schwab, Richardton; a brother-in-law, Frank Scharosch, Hazen; five sisters-in-law: Adelina Schwab and Doris Schwab, Hazen, Bernice Schwab, Green Valley, AZ, Marlene Schwab, Mandan and Margie Warden, Louisville, KY and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; six brothers: Jake, John Jr. , Frank, Antone, Henry and Mike; and five sisters: Ann Hoffman, Madaline Swoboda, Elenore Peterson, Eva Hagel and Helen Scharosch.


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Burial Date: April 5, 2005
Funeral Home Dickinson, ND

Mass of Christian Burial: Tuesday, Sacred Heart Monastery, Richardton