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(1934-2026)
Sister Marie Rose Bauer, formerly known as Sister Ann Jeanine, died on Thursday, January 1, 2026, at the Dominican Life Center in Adrian, Michigan. She was 91 years of age and in the 72nd year of her religious profession in the Adrian Dominican Congregation.
Sister was born in Port Huron, Michigan, to John F. and Marie Rose (Kern) Bauer. She graduated from St. Stephen High School in Port Huron and received a bachelor’s degree in history from Siena Heights College (University) in Adrian.
Sister ministered for more than 29 years in elementary education in Detroit and Port Huron, Michigan, giving 23 years of service to St. Joseph Parish in Port Huron. She also ministered for 10 years in education in Chicago. She became a resident of the Dominican Life Center in 1998.
Sister Marie Rose was preceded in death by her parents; her sister, Elizabeth Flynn; and two brothers, John Jr. and Robert. Sister is survived by a brother, Joe Bauer (Betsy), other loving family members, and her Adrian Dominican Sisters.
Visitation will be held from 6:30 to 7:00 pm on Monday, January 12, 2026, in the gathering space of St. Catherine Chapel. The Vigil Prayer will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, January 12, 2026, in St. Catherine Chapel. A Funeral Mass will be offered in St. Catherine Chapel at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, January 13, 2026. Prayers of Committal will be held in the Congregation Cemetery.
Those not attending services in person are welcome to participate via live stream at https://adriandominicans.org/Live-Stream.
Memorial gifts may be made to Adrian Dominican Sisters, 1257 East Siena Heights Drive, Adrian, MI, 49221. Funeral arrangements are being handled by Anderson-Marry Funeral Home, Adrian.
Sister's Memorial Card (PDF)
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Recording of Sister Marie Rose's Vigil Service - After clicking the link, download the recording by right-clicking on the video choosing "Save video as." Worship Aid (PDF)
Recording of Sister Marie Rose's Funeral Mass - After clicking the link, download the recording by right-clicking on the video choosing "Save video as." Worship Aid (PDF)
LEFT: Marie Rose at 8 months. MIDDLE LEFT: Marie Rose in fourth grade. MIDDLE RIGHT: The Bauer family, back row, from left, Marie Rose (mother), Liz, Marie Rose, John (father), and John (brother); Bob, middle; and Joe, front, 1953.
LEFT: Sister Ann Jeanine Bauer, right, with Sister Helen Joseph Kosal on a home visit. MIDDLE: Sister Marie Rose takes some time to enjoy crocheting. RIGHT: Sisters Marie Rose Bauer, left, and Catherine Innes.
LEFT: Sister Marie Rose with, from left, her grand niece Lisa, her niece Anne Marie Lam, and her grand niece Holly. RIGHT: Sisters Beverly Bobola, left, and Marie Rose Bauer, August 22, 2013.
Members of the 2013 Diamond Jubilee December Reception Crowd are: back row, from left, Sisters Joan Schroeder, Margaret Ann Roggenbuck, Marie Rose Bauer, Attracta Kelly (Prioress), Dorothy Guettler, Janet Wright, and Carol Fleming; middle row, from left, Sisters Margaret Marie Ringel, Frances Wetzel, Janice Scholl, Patricia Ann McKee, Patricia Sporer, Pauline Richter, and Barbara Chenicek; and front row, from left, Sisters Joan Mary Dwyer, Josephine Gaugier, Margarita Rúiz, Mary Vianne Bayus, Lorraine Brennan, Mary E. Waldron, and Mary Cullen.
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(1936-2025)
For many months I have been reflecting on the task of writing this autobiography. Over and over it has come to me that the overwhelming influence in my life is that of a generous God, one who has always provided for me and for my family and has allowed me to be generous in many ways.
Sister Chris Matthews began her autobiography with these sentences, and that thread of God’s generosity was woven throughout the pages that followed.
Christine Marie Matthews was born on December 11, 1936, in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, to James and Grace (Austin) Matthews. She was the second youngest of the couple’s five surviving children – two others died at birth – coming after Mary, Grace, and Janet and before Michael.
James was born on a farm in Hastings, Michigan, to a father who insisted that his boys work hard on the farm, to the point of having their education interrupted during planting and harvest time. When the farm failed, James’ father left the family, and so the children and their mother moved to Detroit. James went on to become a foreman at Ainsworth Manufacturing.
As for Grace, she was a fourth-generation Detroiter who grew up in a family that was very poor but was able to have fun nevertheless. A highlight was when the eldest Austin girl, Annie, would come home on payday with the latest song on sheet music and the family would sing as she played the piano. Although Grace’s family was too poor to even have a Christmas tree, when the neighbors discarded their tree after the holiday the Austin children would bring it into their house and decorate it.
When James and Grace met, James thought she was “the prettiest, peppiest girl he had ever known,” Sister Chris wrote. But after their first date, Grace told Jim it was not a good idea for them to go out since he was not Catholic. He immediately told her he would become Catholic, and soon thereafter began taking instruction in the faith.
As the couple raised their family, they were considered strict on many accounts, but “there was much fun and laughter in the house,” Sister Chris wrote. Holidays were full of relatives and good food, evening homework was often followed by a spirited card game, and the family spent summers at Torch Lake with plenty of fishing and swimming.
Read more about Sister Christine (PDF)
Memorial gifts may be made to Adrian Dominican Sisters, 1257 East Siena Heights Drive, Adrian, MI, 49221.
Recording of Sister Christine's Vigil Service - After clicking the link, download the recording by right-clicking on the video choosing "Save video as." Worship Aid (PDF)
Recording of Sister Christine's Funeral Mass - After clicking the link, download the recording by right-clicking on the video choosing "Save video as." Worship Aid (PDF)
(1941-2025)
We remember and cherish Jamie as an African American Christian Catholic woman, member of the Order of Preachers at Adrian, sister, aunt, theologian, scholar, friend, teacher, colleague, counselor, administrator; advocate for racial and social justice, for diversity, equity, inclusion, and unity; advocate for human dignity, freedom, and liberation; for spiritual, intellectual, and moral excellence; advocate for a Church that would be committed to living concretely the mystery of “communion” in the name of Jesus.
This powerful description of Sister Jamie Phelps came from Dr. M. Shawn Copeland, professor emerita of theology at Boston College and Sister Jamie’s longtime friend and collaborator, in the homily Dr. Copeland preached for a funeral Mass presided over by Cardinal Wilton Gregory and attended by many of those whose lives Sister Jamie had touched.
Jamie Theresa Phelps was born in Pritchard, Alabama, on October 24, 1941. She was the youngest daughter out of a total of six siblings – herself, sisters Alfreda and Marionette, and brothers William, Julius, and Alfred Jr. – born to Alfred and Emma (Brown) Phelps.
Alfred and Emma met while attending Alabama A&M College. Alfred was a Catholic and Emma a Methodist, but the two were married in the Catholic Church and the children were all raised Catholic.
Not long after Jamie’s birth, her parents decided to leave the segregated South for Chicago, and Alfred traveled there to pave the way for the move. He started a business that provided walk-in refrigerators for mom-and-pop grocery stores, and once that was well established Emma and the family’s four children at the time took a train to Chicago, where they lived in an apartment near Holy Name Cathedral.
Read more about Sister Jamie (PDF)
Recording of Sister Jamie's Vigil Service - After clicking the link, download the recording by right-clicking on the video choosing "Save video as." Worship Aid (PDF)
Recording of Sister Jamie's Funeral Mass - After clicking the link, download the recording by right-clicking on the video choosing "Save video as." Worship Aid (PDF)
Jeanne Marie Stickling came into the world on December 5, 1936, on the family farm near Itasca, Illinois. She was the youngest child of Herman Leo and Louise (Lowe) Stickling, joining thirteen-year-old Betty, ten-year-old Leo, and 18-month-old Maryann.
The family moved twice during Jeanne’s childhood, first to a farm near Elgin, Illinois, when she was three years old, and then into Elgin itself, where her father worked in a factory, when she was in fifth grade. In Elgin, she and Maryann attended St. Mary School, and it was here that she first met the Adrian Dominican Sisters.
That connection to the Congregation continued at St. Edward High School, also in Elgin. “I was drawn to the happiness and kindness of the Sisters,” Sister Jeanne wrote in her autobiography, and in her senior year she decided to enter. Her family supported her choice, and in June 1954, not long after she graduated from high school, her parents and both sisters drove her to Adrian to become a postulant.
When the next school year began, she was sent to St. Gabriel School in Detroit to teach third grade for a short time, returning to Adrian in December to begin her canonical novitiate year. She received the religious name Sister Louis Anthony at her reception into the novitiate.
After making profession on New Year’s Eve 1955, she and a number of her temporary-professed compatriots remained in Adrian for study at Siena Heights College (University). Her first teaching assignment, in August 1956, was to St. Bridget School in Detroit, but after three weeks there, she was switched to St. James School in Miami, Florida, so that another Sister could be nearer to her ill mother in Detroit.
Read more about Sister Jeanne (PDF)
Recording of Sister Jeanne's Vigil Service - After clicking the link, download the recording by right-clicking on the video choosing "Save video as." Worship Aid (PDF)
Recording of Sister Jeanne's Funeral Mass - After clicking the link, download the recording by right-clicking on the video choosing "Save video as." Worship Aid (PDF)
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