1948 Loretto Academy Yearbook Music

1948 Loretto Academy Yearbook Music

1948 Loretto Academy Yearbook

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Frances Ratermann born Ap 28,1915 died Sept 19,2013. Ancestors Longuemare were mining pioneers. Played in El Paso Symphony. Worked at Tri-State Music Co. Taught music in Missouri, Denver, and Texas. In 1976 lived in Hong Kong with Maryknoll Sisters. Returned to be caregiver of her mom, and music teacher at her alma mater. She survived ovarian cancer. Her neighborCarolyn Millican Sorden recalled," I will never forget coming home to visit my parents and Frances regaling me with her stories. Her lust for life was catching. To Frances everything and every day was an adventure! There was never a closed door when a stray animal happened to be lucky enough to stop at her door. I remember the cat,"Welfare",who arrived one day on her front walk and "Called" to her until she invited him in." Frances is buried in Nerinx, KY at the Motherhouse of the Sisters of Loretto.

March is Women's History Month in the USA.

Loretto Academy music students in El Paso, TX, 1948. Frances Ratermann taught music al over USA as a Sister of Loretto. She is buried in Nerinx Kentucky.

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