Sister Rose Helen Burger

Burger, Sister Rose Helen baptized Margaret Helen, was born January 17, 1930 in Kansas City, Kansas, the sixth of fourteen children born to Julius Anthony and Mary Elizabeth Haines Burger. Sister Rose Helen received her Elementary Education at St. Thomas the Apostle School and the first three years of her Secondary Education at Bishop Ward High School in Kansas City, Kansas. In 1946, she entered the Sisters of St. Joseph in Wichita, Kansas where she finished her high school. After taking a Normal Training course, she received an Elementary Teacher Certificate in June of 1947. She graduated with a B.S. in Education from St. Mary of the Plains College in 1959 and an M.A. in Education from Notre Dame University in 1965 while continuing to teach for a total of 42 years. In the summer of 1967 she took a Nurse Aide course and worked about 10 summers as a Nurse Aide at Marian Hall, a retirement home for the Sisters of St. Joseph. Upon retiring from teaching in 1992, she earned an Activity Leader Certificate and was Activity Director at St. Rose Hospital in Hayward, California for many years. Upon returning to Wichita she served as an assistant to the activity director at Marian Hall until her recent illness claimed her life. She passed away peacefully Saturday, December 22, at Via-Christi St. Francis. She is preceded in death by her parents Dr. Julius and Mary Burger, 5 brothers Rev. Robert Burger, Dr. Paul Burger, Joe, Charles, and Rev. Richard Burger, and 1 sister, Sister Julius Marie. She is survived by 2 brothers, Rev. Raymond Burger and Rev. Frank Burger and by 5 sisters, Sister Ann Catherine, Elizabeth Marie, Carol Nachbar Morgan (Gary Morgan) Sister Joan Marie, Angela, all her religious Sisters in the Congregation of Saint Joseph, and many nieces and nephews. Memorials in her honor may be made to Dear Neighbor Ministries. Homecoming will be Wednesday, December 26 at 3:00 p.m., the Wake will follow at 6:30 p.m. The Mass of Christian Burial will be Thursday, December 27 at 10:30 a.m., all at Mt. St. Mary's Convent, 3700 E. Lincoln, Wichita, KS 67218.