Sister Rosa Lee (Rosalee Mary) Kramer died at Seton Residence on October 10, 2026. Sister was born on May 27, 1942 in Axtell, Kansas and was one of five children of Frank and Rose (Buessing) Kramer. She graduated from Saints Peter and Paul High School in Seneca, Kansas in 1960 and entered the Daughters of Charity in St. Louis, Missouri in January 1962.
Sister Rosa Lee received a BA in Sociology from Marillac College in St. Louis and an MA in Communication Arts from Webster University in St. Louis. She served as a secondary teacher at Labouré High School in St. Louis and as an elementary teacher at St. Vincent Grade School in Perryville, Missouri, St. Ann School and Holy Trinity School in Dallas, Texas, St. Matthias School, St. Aloysius School, Our Lady of Good Counsel School and St. Pius V School in St. Louis, Ascension Catholic Middle School in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, Father Benedict Justice School in Kansas City, Missouri, St. Mary’s Regional School in West Plains, Missouri, Immaculate Conception School in Rio Grande City, Texas, and Our Lady of Guadalupe School in Mission, Texas.
She also was a Docent at the Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg, Maryland before beginning her work in the Archives of the Daughters of Charity in St. Louis, Missouri and Emmitsburg, Maryland. Sister then served in the Ministry of Prayer at the Sarah Community in Bridgeton, Missouri and then at Seton Residence in Evansville, Indiana until the time of her death.
A Wake Service was held on Wednesday, October 14 in the Seton Residence Chapel and the Mass of Christian Burial took place on October 15 in the Seton Chapel, with burial in St. Joseph Cemetery. Sister was preceded in death by her parents, her brother Regis Kramer and her sisters Helen Keeler and Anna May Gore and she is survived by her sister Dorothy (“Dottie”) Selk, other loving family members, her Sisters in Community, and many friends.