Sister Mary Roseria Helmkamp
February 5, 1934 – May 12, 2025
Professed August 17, 1954
Sister Roseria entered the Sisters of Notre Dame in 1952 and professed vows in 1954. Her love of the rosary inspired her to take the name Roseria. Obtaining her BS in education, Sister Mary Roseria began 40 years in elementary education in towns of the Toledo Diocese.
During Sister’s last years of teaching in Fremont, Ohio, she visited a Migrant Farmworkers Camp which inspired her to devote the next two decades of her life in pastoral ministry with Hispanic people. Wanting to immerse herself in the culture of the people she served, she received certification from the Mexican American Cultural Center in San Antonio, Texas. Sister worked in parish ministry 1994-2003 and with En Camino 2003-2015. Intent upon meeting immediate needs, Sister kept busy distributing food, clothing and baby supplies at Care and Share and teaching English as a second language.
She then stretched her skills to teach English to a young man from Korea.
Sister’s body is being donated to science. Services will be at the Sisters of Notre Dame Center at 5900 Davis Road, Whitehouse, OH on Thursday, May 22. A Rosary will be recited at 4:00PM. The Eulogy will be at 4:20PM and the Memorial Mass at 4:30PM.
Funeral Mass: https://boxcast.tv/view/mass-of-christian-burial-sr-mary-roseria-helmkamp-snd-oz4pmrskpwgtlbdiostb
