Sister Anne Becker, SSND Obituary

Obituary published on Legacy.com by McNearney - Schmidt Funeral and Cremation on Aug. 15, 2025.

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Sister Anne Becker, SSND, 92, died August 14, 2025, at Benedictine Living Community - Windermere, Shakopee, Minnesota.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday, August 19, 2025, at Windermere Chapel, 1705 Windermere Way, Shakopee, with Visitation at 10:00; Sharing of Memories at 10:30; and a Funeral Liturgy at 11:00. Livestreaming will be available at www.ssndcp.org/live/blc Burial in the Good Counsel Cemetery, Mankato, will follow at 2:15.

Sister Anne was born on the family farm near St. Michael, Minnesota, on March 31, 1933. She attended St. Michael elementary school, graduated from Good Counsel Academy in Mankato in 1951 and entered the School Sisters of Notre Dame in Mankato that same year. After profession of First Vows in 1954, she taught elementary and junior high age students in several Minnesota Catholic Schools including Assumption, Cresco, Iowa; Immaculate Conception, Lonsdale; St. Francis, Buffalo; St. Casimir, Winona; St. John the Baptist, Savage; and St. Matthew, St. Paul. Classroom music, school musical productions, music lessons and parish choirs were often her responsibility along with teaching. She also served in parish ministry and pastoral care in several parishes: St. Mary, Tracy; St. Patrick, Inver Grove Heights; St. James, St. Paul; St. John, Little Canada; St. Austin, Brooklyn Center; and St. Matthew, St. Paul. In her retirement years at the Good Counsel provincial house in Mankato, she continued sharing her music abilities with sisters and staff, and was a member of the Singing Hills Chorus. She moved to Shakopee in 2022 with other School Sisters of Notre Dame.

Sister Anne is survived by her sisters in community, the School Sisters of Notre Dame and SSND Associates, her sisters, Helen Mae (Dan) Wambeke and Dorothy Daleiden, and nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, Henry and Anna (Mayerhofer) Becker and her brothers, Victor, Wilfred, Leander, Roman, Clemens and Harold. A longer obituary and a recording of her funeral will be available at www.ssndcp.org/obituaries Memorials may be directed to the School Sisters of Notre Dame; 11 Civic Center Plaza, Suite 310; Mankato, MN 56001.

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Thomas Smith-Chief of Police (ret)

August 16, 2025

Sister Anne will be very much missed by all of us she positively affected. From being our music teacher at St. Matthew´s, to our 8th Grade production of Icabad Crane, she always kept our class inline.

Sister Anne was not only our teacher, but also famously beat me in arm wrestling when I was in 8th grade. This story grew wings throughout our class reunions, my lunches with Anne when I was Chief of Police, and finally cultivating at my retirement as Chief, when she was crowned champion in front of hundreds of people.

Seriously, Sister Anne became a dear friend and someone you could never say no to when asked a favor. Although Sister is now gone, her dedication towards others and her legacy will live on.

I can only guess she is now playing the piano for Father Steve Adrian in heaven.