Sister Brigid Kelliher, Osb

Sister Brigid Kelliher, OSB, 83, a Benedictine sister of Mount St. Scholastica, Atchison, Kansas, died unexpectedly on Sunday, October 21, 2012 in Kansas City, Missouri.

Mass of Resurrection will be offered at Mount St. Scholastica on Friday, October 26, 2012 at 10:30 A.M. The vigil service will be Thursday, October 25th at 7:00 P.M. in the monastery chapel. Memorial contributions are suggested to Mount St. Scholastica, 801 S. 8th Street, Atchison, Kansas, 66002. The Arensberg-Pruett Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Sister Brigid was born to John Daniel and Mary Ellen Kelleth Kelliher on November 9, 1928, and baptized Mary Catherine at Assumption Church, Topeka, Kansas. The family moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska, where she lived until she entered the Mount community in 1947. Sister Brigid made monastic profession in 1948. She earned a bachelor's degree in English from Mount St. Scholastica College and taught until 1977 in many schools staffed by her Benedictine community including schools in the Kansas City area and in St. Joseph, Missouri. She studied at Creighton University and in 1980 received a master's degree in pastoral ministry. She was active in religious education and in parish and hospital ministry until she became secretary and hospitality minister in 1994 at Sophia Center, the Mount's spirituality center.

Sister Brigid is survived by her brother Charles and his wife Jeannine, by her nephews Michael and Timothy and their families, all of Kearney, NE, by cousins, and by her religious community.