15 October 1925 – 27 November 2021
Sister Mary Eleanor Schram, 96, a Sister of Charity of Leavenworth (SCL) for 76 years, died on Nov. 27, 2021, in Ross Hall at the SCL Mother House in Leavenworth, Kan.
Helen Schram was born on Oct.15, 1925, in Cheyenne Wells, Colo., the second of five children of John and Eleanora (Rothemeyer) Schram. She grew up in a strong German Catholic family. Childhood memories of the dust bowl in the 1930s, which strongly affected eastern Colorado, never left her. A 1932 storm left 2 inches of dust over everything in her family’s home and farm. She graduated from Sacred Heart Grade School and Cheyenne County High School in Cheyenne Wells.
She entered the SCL Community on Aug. 14, 1945, and professed vows as Sister Mary Eleanor on Aug. 15, 1947. In 1949, she received a R.N. degree from the Sisters of Charity School of Nursing in Butte, Mont. In 1971, she received a B.S. degree in nursing from Saint Mary College, Leavenworth, Kan.
Sister Mary Eleanor loved nursing and served for over 30 years in hospitals in Montana, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico. She developed specialties in several areas of care: obstetrics, ICU, surgery, and emergency room. Over her career, she welcomed newborn babies, as well as comforted the dying in their last hours. Her gentleness, compassion, and generous nature contributed to all phases of her work.
Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated in Ross Chapel at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 7 in Leavenworth, Kansas. Interment followed in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Mother House grounds.
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