Sister Frances Billinger
CONCORDIA — Sister Frances Therese Billinger, 78, died Thursday at HCA Wesley Medical Center, Wichita. She was born Feb. 17, 1909, at St. Peter. She entered the Congregation of St. Joseph of Concordia in 1928 and said final vows in 1931. She was a nurse and supervisor at St. John's Hospital, Salina, where she worked for more than 20 years. She also served at St. Joseph's Hospital of Concordia and hospitals at Sabetha and Belvidere, Ill. She retired from health care in 1973 but continued to serve in Salina as a volunteer for the Alert Program. Later in 1973 she moved to the Nazareth Motherhouse at Concordia, where she worked as an assistant in the office of communications until ill health forced her to retire.
Survivors include three sisters, Mathilda Bender of Leoti, Adolphine Wasinger of Westminster, Colo., and Georgine Balmes of Waukegan, Ill. The funeral will be 1:30 p.m. today at the Nazarath Motherhouse Chapel, Concordia, the Rev. Steve Letourneau officiating. Burial will be
at the Nazareth Convent Cemetery, Concordia. A wake was 7 p.m. Friday at the Motherhouse Chapel.
Sister Frances Billinger
CONCORDIA — Sister Frances Therese Billinger, 78, died Thursday at HCA Wesley Medical Center, Wichita. She was born Feb. 17, 1909, at St. Peter. She entered the Congregation of St. Joseph of Concordia in 1928 and said final vows in 1931. She was a nurse and supervisor at St. John's Hospital, Salina, where she worked for more than 20 years. She also served at St. Joseph's Hospital of Concordia and hospitals at Sabetha and Belvidere, Ill. She retired from health care in 1973 but continued to serve in Salina as a volunteer for the Alert Program. Later in 1973 she moved to the Nazareth Motherhouse at Concordia, where she worked as an assistant in the office of communications until ill health forced her to retire.
Survivors include three sisters, Mathilda Bender of Leoti, Adolphine Wasinger of Westminster, Colo., and Georgine Balmes of Waukegan, Ill. The funeral will be 1:30 p.m. today at the Nazarath Motherhouse Chapel, Concordia, the Rev. Steve Letourneau officiating. Burial will be
at the Nazareth Convent Cemetery, Concordia. A wake was 7 p.m. Friday at the Motherhouse Chapel.
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62nd Year of Her Religious Life
R.I.P.
Family Members
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Joseph A. Billinger
1898–1971
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Barbara Billinger Knoll
1899–1976
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John J. Billinger
1901–1963
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Matilda E Billinger Bender
1903–1993
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Adolphine Billinger Wasinger
1905–2002
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Paul Francis Billinger
1907–1969
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Aloysius Billinger
1910–1921
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Edmund Francis Billinger
1913–1962
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Georgine Agnes Billinger Balmes
1915–2003
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Regina M. Billinger Brungardt
1917–1952
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Andrew Florian Billinger
1920–1961
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