Sister Devota Klamet, Osb

Sister Devota Klamet, OSB, 95, a Benedictine Sister of Mount St. Scholastica, Atchison, Kansas, died June 24, 2013, at the monastery.

The vigil will be Thursday, June27, at 7:00 p.m., in the monastery chapel, and the Mass of Resurrection will be Friday, June 28, at 10:30 a.m.

Born to Louis and Frances Gail Klamet April 21, 1918, Sister Devota spent her early years in Tonganoxie and Bonner Springs, Kansas. Baptized Grace Josephine at Sacred Heart Church in Bonner Springs, she attended Dafer Grade School in Tonganoxie and the Bonner Springs High School until her senior year. She graduated from Mount St. Scholastica Academy, Atchison, in 1936 and entered the Benedictine community there in 1937. She made monastic profession in
August 1938.

Sister Devota earned a Bachelor in Education with a minor in history from Mount St. Scholastica College and a Master of Science in education from Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska. She taught in grade and high schools in five states for some 70 years.

She was a founding member of the Benet Hill Community in Colorado, a daughter house of the Mount. She was principal and teacher in Monte Vista and Antonito, Colorado, and librarian at the Benet Hill Academy. After fifteen years in the Colorado community, she transferred back to Atchison in 1980. She was librarian at Maur Hill Prep School, was on staff at Benedictine College library, and continued that service in the Mount St. Scholastica community library as technical services assistant. She directed The Mount Community Center Gifts and Books for ten years.

Sister Devota was predeceased by her parents, by her brothers Charles and Vincent, and by her sisters Rita Klamet, Anne Willie, and Blanche Murphy. She is survived by her sisters Regina (Mrs. Norman) Jennings of Bonner Springs, Kansas; Mary (Mrs. Louis) Seufert, Tonganoxie, Kansas; Teresa (Mrs. John) Griffin, Batavia, NY; and Ruth (Mrs. Wade) Martin, Kansas City, Kansas; and by her monastic family.