Sister Helen Buening, Osb

Sister Helen (Egberta) Buening, OSB, 97, a sister of Mount St. Scholastica died Friday May 15, 2015 at Mount St. Scholastica.

Mass of Resurrection will be offered Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 10:30 A.M. at the monastery chapel. Vigil services will be Tuesday, May 19th at 7:00 P.M. also at the monastery chapel. Memorial contributions are suggested to Mount St. Scholastica and may be left in care of Arensberg-Pruett Funeral Home or online at the Mount's web site. Arensberg-Pruett Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Born in Soldier, Kansas, Sister Helen graduated from Valley Farlls High School and from Mount St. Scholastica College with a BA in history and a minor in art. She taught at Kansas City schools—Guardian Angels, St. Benedict's, and Lillis High School in Missouri, and at St. Joseph's Shawnee, Kansas. She continued art study at Kansas City Art Institute and the Chicago Art Institute and received the Master in Fine Arts from Notre Dame University. She taught and chaired the art department at Mount St. Scholastica College and Benedictine College in Atchison. Upon her retirement from the college, she became the weekly "Picture Lady" for Atchison area schools. Sister Helen wrote two art books: God's Finger in Art and Art Masters Then and Now: Experiences in Art for Ages 5 to 95.

Born to John and Ellen Becker Buening in 1917, Sister Helen had a sister and four brothers. She is preceded in death by her parents and her brothers Lawrence, Paul, and John. She is survived by her brother Gene, her sister Geri Wilson, her sister-in-law Jody Buening, and other family, many friends, and her monastic community.