Sister Marilyn has 50th anniversary

Sister Marilyn Schieber

On July 10, 2016, Sister Marilyn Schieber was one of three sisters who celebrated the 50th anniversary of their commitment as Benedictine sisters at Mount St. Scholastica in Atchison, Kansas. Sister Marilyn is the daughter of the late John and Rita Teson Schieber of Clyde, Missouri, and many of her relatives from the Nodaway County area and elsewhere attended the Mass and reception in Atchison.

Before she became “Sister Marilyn,” Rita Marie Schieber attended Immaculate Conception School in Conception and Jefferson High School in Conception Junction. She was taught by Benedictine sisters and also had two aunts, Sisters Adella and Mauricita Schieber, and a cousin, Sister Mathilda Mattson, in the community.

Sister Marilyn has seen a number of changes in the monastery and in her own life. For her first 20 years, she taught at various grade schools in Kansas and Missouri. Earning a master’s degree in pastoral studies and credits in clinical pastoral education, she went into parish ministry, doing religious education, planning liturgies, assisting people in sacramental preparation, and ministering to the sick and elderly. Since September 2013 she has served as director of human resources for the monastery’s lay employees.