A funeral Mass for Sister Rosa Lee (Rosalee Mary) Kramer, DC, was celebrated Oct. 15 at Seton Residence Chapel in Evansville, Indiana. Sister Rosa Lee died at Seton Residence on Oct. 10. She was 84 years old.
Sister Rosa Lee was born on May 27, 1942, in Axtell, Kansas, and was one of five children of Frank and Rose (Buessing) Kramer. She graduated from Sts. Peter and Paul High School in Seneca, Kansas, in 1960 and entered the Daughters of Charity in St. Louis in January 1962.
Sister Rosa Lee earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Marillac College in St. Louis (1971) and a master’s degree in communication arts from Webster University in St. Louis (1982). She served as a secondary teacher and audio-visual director at Labouré High School in St. Louis (1965-71) and was an elementary teacher at St. Vincent Grade School in Perryville (1979-82); St. Ann School and Holy Trinity School in Dallas, Texas; and St. Matthias School (1972-77), St. Aloysius School (1990-94), Our Lady of Good Counsel School (1994-99), and St. Pius V School (2000-03) in St. Louis.
She also taught at Ascension Catholic Middle School in Donaldsonville, Louisiana; Father Benedict Justice School in Kansas City, Missouri; St. Mary’s Regional School in West Plains, Missouri; Immaculate Conception School in Rio Grande City, Texas; and Our Lady of Guadalupe School in Mission, Texas.
Sister Rosa Lee also was a docent at the Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg, Maryland, before beginning her work in the archives of the Daughters of Charity in St. Louis (2009-12) and Emmitsburg (2012-18). She then served in the ministry of prayer at the Sarah Community in Bridgeton (2018-23) and Seton Residence in Evansville until the time of her death.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her brother Regis Kramer and her sisters Helen Keeler and Anna May Gore. She is survived by her sister Dorothy (“Dottie”) Selk, other loving family members, her sisters in community and many friends.
Burial was in in St. Joseph Cemetery.
