Name of Deceased: Sister Amata Pantel                                           Age: 95

 

Sister Amata Pantel, 95, died Saturday, August 24, 2013, in the Dominican Sisters’ convent infirmary, Great Bend.

 

Born April 25, 1918, in Wakefield Kan., as Josephine Pantel, Sister Amata was the daughter of the late Joseph and Stella Bower Pantel. She entered the Dominican Sisters’ Community August 28, 1934, and pronounced her first vows August 12, 1937. She celebrated seventy-five years of religious profession in 2012.

 

Sister Amata gave much of her ministerial life to domestic work in the sisters’ missions, laundries, kitchens and sewing rooms. Later she served as a teacher aide, gardener at the motherhouse, and in home health services. She retired in 1994.

 

Sister Amata is survived by her Dominican Sisters of Peace religious community, and one brother, Ernest of Palisade, Colo., and one sister, Betty Lou Evans of Denver, Colo.

 

Sister Amata’s body will be brought to the hospitality area of the Dominican Chapel of the Plains, 3600 Broadway, Great Bend, on Monday, August 26 at 4:00 p.m., where it will lie in state until the Liturgy of Christian Burial at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, August 27, with Rev. James Hoover presiding and Rev. Anselm Eke concelebrating. A wake service will be held Monday, August 26, at 7:00 p.m. Burial will be in the Sisters’ ResurrectionCemetery. Both the wake and the funeral will be held at the convent. Friends may call at the convent Monday evening, August 26, from 7:00 – 8:00 p.m., and Tuesday morning from 8:00 a.m. until the time of the funeral Mass. Memorials in honor of Sister Amata may be sent to Dominican Sisters of Peace, 2320 Airport Dr, Columbus OH  43219-2098. Bryant Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

 

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                      Arrangements by    Bryant Funeral Home         1425 Patton Road       Great Bend, Kansas                      67530