A Mass of Christian Burial for Franciscan Sister Boniface Konrad was celebrated Dec. 20 at the motherhouse chapel of the Sisters of St. Francis in Oldenburg, Ind. She died Dec. 17 at St. Clare Hall health-care facility.

A native of Zemun, Yugoslavia, she professed her final vows in 1943 and was a dedicated elementary and secondary teacher for 52 years, teaching German and history. She served at St. Clement School in St. Bernard, Sacred Heart in Cincinnati and Carroll High School in Dayton. She also taught at schools in Indiana. She retired in 1993.

Interment was in the motherhouse cemetery.

Sister Mary Assumpta Koesters

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated for Dominican Sister of Hope Mary Assumpta Koesters. She died Jan. 8 at the age of 90.

A native of Carthagena, she entered the novitiate of the Dominican Sisters of the Sick Poor in 1941 and made her final profession in 1946. She earned her RN from St. Catherine’s Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., her bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Dayton and her master’s in Community Health from Long Island University.

Her ministries included nursing at home health agencies in Dayton, Columbus, the Bronx, N.Y., and Manhattan. In 1971, she became a community health nurse and director of special clinics for a health service in Manhattan until 1980. She was certified as a chaplain in 1981 and became pastoral director of Clermont County Hospital, later Clermont Mercy, in Batavia. In 1991, she became involved in pastoral ministry to the homebound and sick in St. Bernadette Parish in Amelia. In 2004, she moved to the Maria-Joseph Living Care Center in Dayton.

Interment was in Celina

Wilma McGrath

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Jan. 11 for Wilma McGrath, 97, at St. Rose Church in Cincinnati. She died at her home in Walnut Hills Jan. 6.

She was a registered nurse at Xavier University’s health and counseling center. The McGrath Health and Counseling Center at Xavier was named for her and her husband, the late Dr. Edward J. McGrath, a cardiothoracic surgeon and associate dean of the UC College of Medicine.

A native of Covington, Ky., she was a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing and worked as a nurse at the former Cincinnati General Hospital and Holmes Hospital.

She is survived by her daughter, Mary McGrath of Troy, Mich.; and her son, John McGrath of Middletown.

Interment was in St. Joseph Cemetery in Cincinnati.