Sister Madeline Greiner

KEOTA ? Sister Madeline Mary Greiner, 94, died Tuesday, March 28, 2017, in Omaha, Nebraska.

Funeral Mass will be held at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, April 1, at Holy Trinity Parish ? St. Mary Catholic Church in Keota with the Rev. Charles Fladung officiating. Burial will be in the St. Mary Cemetery, Keota. Visitation will be from 3 to 6 p.m., Friday at the Powell Funeral Home in Keota. Memorials may be given for Masses or the School Sisters of St. Francis.

Sister Madeline Mary Greiner was born Nov. 25, 1922, in Harper, the daughter of Robert Frank and Rosa Frances (Adam) Greiner.

She had a normal, happy childhood. She attended grade school at St. Mary?s School in Keota, which was 4 miles from home. She attended St. Joseph?s High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she graduated in 1940. She entered the School Sisters of St. Francis in June of that year and took her first vows in June 1942. She received her religious name of Odilia, which was changed back to Madeline in 1968. In 1944, she taught for one year in Charlesburg, Wisconsin, before graduating from Alverno College in Milwaukee in 1945. She made her final vows in June 1948.

She had a life of very successful teaching. She served in many schools over the years. In addition to her teaching, she served on the parish council, was an Area Coordinator for her community, a Cooperating teacher for the training of new teachers and an Extraordinary Minister of the Eucharist. After her retirement from teaching in 1993, she still kept busy substitute teaching, tutoring, and visiting the sick. She loved teaching and being a School Sister of St. Francis. She is remembered for her love of her community, her closeness to her family, her love and care of the children she taught, and the love, care and support she provided to the sick and poor throughout her life of ministry.

Surviving are two sisters, Marie Hammes and husband Norbert of Fairfield, and Dorothy Weber of Washington; one brother, Robert Greiner and wife Frances of Washington; one sister-in-law, Kathryn Greiner of Cedar Rapids; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; one brother, Edward Greiner; one sister, Marjorie McMains; two brothers-in-law, Robert McMains, and Luke Weber; and nieces and nephews.