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Sister Mary Wolf
SISTER MARY WILMA WOLF
Cedar Rapids
Sister Mary Wilma Wolf, RSM, 97, died June 9, 2015, at Mercy Hallmar in Cedar Rapids after a brief illness. Services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 16, at the Chapel of Mercy on the Mount Mercy University
campus, by the Rev. Jim Brockman. Burial will be in Mount Calvary Cemetery, Cedar Rapids. Friends may call from 4 to 6:30 p.m. Monday, June 15, at Sacred Heart Chapel, with a wake service at 6:30 p.m. Arrangements are with Stewart Baxter Funeral & Memorial Services, Cedar Rapids.
Sister Mary Wilma was born April 2, 1918, in Little Cedar, Iowa, the daughter of William and Sophia (Miller) Wolf. She attended Washington Elementary and graduated from Osage High School in Osage in 1936. Following graduation, she entered the Sisters of Mercy Community in Cedar Rapids.
Sister Mary Wilma taught at St. Berchman's, Marion; Immaculate Conception, Charles City, and St. John's School, Waterloo. Sister Mary Wilma attended Mount Mercy College from 1941 to 1943. She received her bachelor's degree in home economics from the University of Iowa in 1943 and her master's degree in 1944, majoring in home economics and minoring in biochemistry.
Sister Mary Wilma was an instructor at Mount Mercy from 1945 to 1988. Upon her retirement, Sister Mary Wilma began volunteering for Mercy Medical Center as a seamstress and crocheted prayer shawls and baby blankets. She volunteered at Mercy Medical Center until the time of her death. She recently had surpassed 9,000 hours of volunteer service.
Sister Mary Wilma was a Sister of Mercy for 79 years. Sister delighted in sharing her many culinary skills of baking, cooking and canning. She often was a guest on the noon WMT television show demon-strating a variety of recipes.
In addition to the Sisters of Mercy, Sister Mary Wilma is survived by a sister, Catherine Wolf of Love Park, Ill.; and a brother, Vincent Wolf of Chillicothe, Mo.; and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her siblings, Gertrude, Bernice, Clement, Agnes, Monica, Fidelis and Wilma.
Memorials may be sent to the Sisters of Mercy at 1125 Prairie Dr. NE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52402.
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