Wichita Eagle, Monday, March 6, 1972

SISTER ANNA HERMES, 67, of Sisters-Adorers of the Blood of Christ, 1165 Southwest Blvd., died Sunday. Services at 4:15 p.m. Tuesday in the convent chapel, burial in the convent cemetery. A wake will be at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the chapel. Survivors include three brothers, Ben, Denver, Frank, Berthoud, Colo., and Aloys, Miltona, Minn., and four sisters, Mrs. Mary Ricken, Garden Plain, Miss Susan Hermes, Denver, Mrs. Josephine Ziegler, Hutchinson, Kan., and Mrs. Cecilia McInroy, Loveland, Colo. Flanagan-Hunt Funeral Home has charge.

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Sister Anna (formerly M. Columba) Hermes was born in Ost, Kansas, on November 22, 1904. The Adorers of the Blood of Christ staffed the school in Ost, which eventually led her to the religious congregation in 1922. She entered the novitiate in 1923 and received the name of Sister Columba, which she kept until the late 1960s. Sister made her first profession of vows in 1924. She served primarily in the apostolate of domestic services in Kansas, Oklahoma, Illinois, and New Mexico including St. John's Academy in Wichita. In some of these missions Sister served with her gift of being an organist. Her last active service was at the Provincial House in Wichita, where she performed kitchen duties from 1965 until a week before her death on March 5, 1972. Sister Hermes suffered much of her life with Parkinson's disease, and despite its affects, she continued faithful to her duties, bringing joy to those around her by her helpfulness and her gift of humor. She dedicated 47 years of her life to the Adorers of the Blood of Christ. She is buried in the cemetery of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, Newman University, Wichita, KS.

In 2020, the Sister Anna Hermes Memorial Scholarship fund was established by her descendants at Newman University, Wichita, KS, for a deserving Hispanic student from Wyandotte or Johnson County, Kansas who plans for a career in nursing or medicine.