Sr. Mary David Miranowski

Sister Mary David Miranowski, age 90, of the Franciscan Sister's in Little Falls, MN, passed away Friday, February 29, 2008 at the St. Francis Convent in Little Falls, MN. A Mass of Christian Burial will take place at St. Francis Convent on Wednesday, March 5, at 11 a.m. Friends may call at St. Francis Convent on Tuesday, March 4, from 4 - 8:30 p.m. and from 8:30 a.m. until the time of the funeral on March 5. A wake service will be held at the Convent at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 4. Sister Mary David was born on March 24, 1917, near Kent, Minn. She was the third of nine children born to the late Anthony and Magdalen (Schwiep) Miranowski. She was accepted as a Franciscan Sister on August 12, 1938. She made first profession of vows on August 12, 1940, and final vows on August 12, 1943. She was a Franciscan Sister for 69 years. Sister Mary David ministered as a lab and x-ray technician and a licensed practical nurse. She served in Breckenridge, Perham, Alexandria, Onamia, Moorhead, and Little Falls, Minn.; and Dodgeville, and Cudahy, Wis. In her retirement she was a volunteer at St. Francis Convent. She was preceded in death by siblings: Mary Beyer, Lawrence, Mark and Anastasia Terfehr. Survivors include siblings: Ann Ehlert and Raymond (Alice), Kent; Jerome (Lorraine), Perham; Angeline Nordick, Breckenridge; and brother-in-law, Robert Terfehr, Breckenridge; sister-in-law Geneva Miranowski, Breckenridge and her Franciscan Community. Donations to Franciscan Sisters Ministries preferred.