[Cincinnati, OH] Rosemary Wack of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, age 95, passed away on March 24, 2024.

Born February 18, 1929, Wack survived scarlet fever and the Great Depression. She was educated at Julienne High School in Dayton and was called to enter the Notre Dame de Namur community at age 18.

With a bachelor’s degree in education from the University of Dayton and a master’s in education from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wack dedicated 13 years to teaching. Her expertise was elementary and middle school classrooms. She taught students in Chicago, Wyoming, Dayton and Columbus.

In 1963, Wack was elected to the congregational leadership team. She spent the next six years living in Rome during the Vatican II era. In this role, she traveled extensively to advise and support Sisters in worldwide ministries.

After her leadership term ended, Wack served as head of school at a teacher training college in Kenya. Later, at age 50, she went back to school to earn an associate degree in nursing from Sinclair Community College in Dayton. Her second career placed her in care of patients at hospitals in Kentucky, Ohio and Zimbabwe, Africa.

Services for Sister Rosemary Wack will be held in the chapel at the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur Province facility, 699 E. Columbia Avenue in Cincinnati, on Wednesday, May 1. Visitation will begin at 1:30 p.m. and the Funeral Mass is at 3 p.m. She will be interred in Piqua, Ohio.

The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur are an international congregation founded in Amiens, France, in 1804. Sisters are dedicated to changing lives by making known God’s goodness. Throughout the world, they are committed to education and take a stand with impoverished people, especially women and children in the most abandoned places. Sisters of Notre Dame serve across the U.S. and in Belgium, Brazil, Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Great Britain, Haiti, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Peru, South Africa, South Sudan and Zimbabwe. See more at sndohio.org.