Sister Lucille Adelman

Sister Lucille Marie Adelman, 80, died at Villa Saint Vincent, Crookston, on Monday, May 12, 2014. Lucille Marie Adelman, second of the seven children of Andrew and Susan (Vonderharr) Adelman, was born near the tiny, very Catholic and very German hamlet of Rosen, MN. She was born on December 13, 1933, on the homestead that her paternal grandfather had settled and where her father was born. She was baptized at Saint Joseph's Church in Rosen where she also attended the Saint Joseph's Grade School and was taught by Benedictine sisters from Crookston. She related that she knew in the second grade that she wanted to be a sister. She chose to enter the Mount community largely because of the influence of the Mount sisters who taught her though she had relatives in religious communities in Saint Joseph, Mankato and Rochester, MN and Dubuque, IA. Lucille attended Mount Saint Benedict Academy for high school, and she entered the monastic community as a senior in January, 1951. She was invested in the Benedictine habit when she entered the novitiate, July 2, 1951. She also received her religious name, Sister Mary Edward, but when sisters were permitted to revert to their baptismal names, she resumed the name Sister Lucille Marie. She made her final monastic profession on July 11, 1955. Sister Lucille Marie received a Bachelor of Arts degree in organ performance from the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; a Religious Formation Certificate from the Institute of Religious Formation from Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO and a Masters of Pastoral Studies from Loyola University, Chicago, IL. She also did some graduate studies at Saint John's University, Collegeville, MN. Sister Lucille Marie began her ministry first as a kindergarten teacher at the Cathedral Grade School in Crookston and at Saint Joseph's School in Moorhead. She also taught music at the Cathedral, Saint Joseph's and Saint Michael's in Mahnomen. She had a brief stint as an assistant records librarian at Saint Mary's Hospital in Detroit Lakes. In 1962, she began teaching piano at Mount Saint Benedict and serving as the community organist. From 1970 to 1976 she was the formation director at Mount Saint Benedict Monastery. In 1974, after attending the Institute of Religious Formation where she was trained in spiritual direction, she began another phase of her life: offering spiritual direction, first to sisters at the Mount and then to people in the wider community. At this time she also became involved in offering individually directed retreats. From 1977 to 1987, she offered spiritual direction, individually directed retreats and piano lessons in Browerville, MN. Two of those years, 1985 to 1987, she served as pastoral assistant at Christ the King Parish, thus beginning a third phase of her life, that of pastoral ministry. From 1987 to 1989, she was the pastoral associate at Saint Joseph's in Red Lake Falls, Saint Dorothy's in Dorothy, Saint Anthony's in Terrebonne and Saint Vincent de Paul's in Plummer. From 1989 to 2002, she served as the Pastoral Administrator at Saint Joseph's Parish in Oslo. When asked what she did as pastoral administrator, she said, "Everything except administer the sacraments!" While in Oslo she also became involved with ecumenical activities. One of the notable events while she was in Oslo was surviving the 1997 flood! She said, "We had ONE Sunday Mass between Easter and Ascension because we were an island in the midst of the great Red River Lake!" In 2002, she returned to the Mount, where she began offering spiritual direction and in 2005 she became the liturgy coordinator. She retired from that position in 2011. She moved into assisted living in 2010 because of deteriorating health after having undergone radiation therapy for cancer. She moved to Villa Saint Vincent shortly before her death. Sister Lucille Marie was preceded in death by her parents and her brother, Irvin. She is survived by sisters Irene (Roger) McCullock of Big Stone City, SD, Rose Ann Wollschlager of Millbank, SD, Verna McGovern of Fargo, ND and brothers Jerry (Dorothy) of Bellingham, MN and James (Betty) of Rapid City, SD, sister-in-law Veronica of Ortonville, MN and many nieces and nephews and the Sisters of Saint Benedict. Reception of Sister Lucille Marie's body will be at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 18 followed by visitation until the 7:00 p.m. prayer service. Sister Lucille Marie's funeral will be at 11:00 a.m. Monday, May 19, 2014, with Msgr. Roger Grundhaus presiding. All services will be in Sacred Heart Chapel, Mount Saint Benedict Monastery, 620 Summit Ave. Crookston, MN. Gifts in memory of Sister Lucille Marie are preferred to Mount Saint Benedict Foundation.

Funeral Home: Stenshoel-Houske Funeral Home 615 South Minnesota Street Crookston, MN US 56716

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Visitation
Sunday, May 18, 2014
Service
Monday, May 19, 2014
cemetery
Monday, May 19, 2014