SISTER JEAN LIND

SISTER JEAN LIND 08/29/1933 - 09/20/2025 Leavenworth, Kan. - Sister Jean Lind, 92, a Sister of Charity of Leavenworth (SCL) for 72 years, died on Saturday, September 20, 2025. Born Donna Jean on August 29, 1933, in St. Paul, Minn., she was the youngest of three children of Helmar J. and Emma F. (née Gnidic) Lind. Donna Jean felt drawn to the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth while studying nursing at Carroll College in Helena, Mont., and made her religious profession on October 26, 1952, taking the name Sister Jean Regis. She later chose to simplify her religious name to Sister Jean. After profession, she continued her nursing education at St. Vincent Hospital in Billings, Mont., and St. Louis University in St. Louis, Mo., earning a master's degree in nursing. For over two decades, Sister Jean ministered in health care, specializing in obstetrics as a nurse, supervisor, and instructor at Providence Hospital in Kansas City, Kan., and St. Vincent Hospital and School of Nursing in Billings. While at St. Vincent's, she was instrumental in the planning, design, and implementation of a transport unit for infants needing critical care. Reflecting on her years in the nursing field, she once wrote, "It was rewarding to extend Christ's compassionate care to patients in vulnerable and critical times of life." In 1977, she turned to prayer, solitude, and contemplative life, later tutoring, coordinating, and ministering to the elderly, sick, and homebound in Kansas and Wyoming. Through every ministry - nurse, teacher, contemplative, hermit, groundskeeper, tutor, coordinator, parish minister - she described her life as "grace following on grace." Preceding her in death were her parents; her brother, Robert Lind; and her sister, Shirley Roberts. Survivors include extended family, friends, and the SCL Community. A vigil was held at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 30, 2025, in Ross Chapel of the Sisters of Charity Mother House in Leavenworth. A Rosary will be prayed at 9:45 a.m. on Wednesday, October 1, 2025, in Ross Chapel with the Mass of Christian Burial at 10:30 a.m., also in Ross Chapel. Interment will follow in Mount Olivet Cemetery on the Mother House grounds. Memorial contributions may be made to Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Retirement Fund, 4200 S. 4th St., Leavenworth, KS 66048. For a more detailed obituary, visit: https://www.scls.org/sister-jean-lind/.