Wednesday, March 24, 2010

A Mass of Christian Burial for Sister of the Precious Blood Alma Catherine Huelskamp was held March 17 at Salem Heights in Dayton. Sister Alma, 85, died March 13 at the Maria Joseph Center in Dayton. She had been a Sister of the Precious Blood for 67 years.

A native of St. Joseph, Sister Alma served primarily as a cook at St. Gregory and St. Charles seminaries and at a seminary in Denver. She also worked in residences for Cincinnati Auxiliary Bishop George J. Rehring and Cincinnati Archbishop John T. McNicholas, at St. Joseph College in Rensselaer, Ind., at the Maria Joseph Home in Dayton and at homes for the elderly in Indiana.

Sister Alma is survived by her brother, Arthur, of  Ft. Recovery and sisters, Mildred Will of Fort Recovery and Sister of the Precious Blood Luella Huelskamp of Dayton.

Interment was at Salem Heights Cemetery.