OBITUARY NOTICE: Sister Patricia Martinez OP

Sister Patricia Martinez, 89, died Friday, November 14, 2014, at Salina Regional Health Center in Salina, Kansas.

Born May 13, 1925, in Little River KS, as Pasquala Martinez, Sister Patricia was the daughter of the late Gregorio and Placida Gomez Martinez. She entered the Dominican Sisters Community in Great Bend October 10, 1943, and pronounced her first vows August 13, 1946. She celebrated sixty-five years of religious profession in 2011.

Sister Patricia was a life-long teacher. She began in 1947 and taught elementary students of Catholic parochial schools in some capacity until 2011. She was principal of four different schools, ministered in Kansas and Nebraska, and taught in all the grades from 1- 8 at some time during her ministry. She taught in sixteen different Kansas schools in Sharon, Dubuque, Willowdale, Seward, Clonmel, St. Leo, Belpre, Great Bend, Ellinwood, Chase, Cunningham, Schulte, Hutchinson, and Wichita in Kansas and in Lawrence, Nebraska. After full time teaching she still tutored part time for a while and worked with Head Start children.

Sister Patricia is survived by her Dominican Sisters of Peace religious community, and one brother and three sisters: John, Antonia (Toni), Asencia (Cindy), all of McPherson KS, and Patrosinia (Pat) Oltmanns of Wichita KS.

Sister Patricia’s body will be brought to the hospitality area of the Dominican Chapel of the Plains, 3600 Broadway, Great Bend, on Sunday, November 16, 2014 at 4:00 p.m., where it will lie in state until the Liturgy of Christian Burial at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, November 18, 2014, with Rev. Ken Van Haverbeke presiding. A wake service will be held Monday, November 17, 2014, at 7:00 p.m. Burial will be in the Sisters’ Resurrection Cemetery. Both the wake and the funeral will be held at the convent (see chapel address above).

Memorials in honor of Sister Patricia Martinez may be sent to: Dominican Sisters of Peace, 2320 Airport Dr, Columbus OH 43219-2098.

Bryant Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Friends may call at the convent Monday, November 17, from 9:00 a.m. until the time of the Wake at 7:00 p.m., and Tuesday morning, November 18, until the time of the funeral Mass at 10:30 a.m.
By Sister Elaine Osborne OP
Dominican Sisters of Peace
3600 Broadway Ave
Great Bend, KS 67530-3692
620-792-1232
FAX 620-792-1746
eosborne@oppeace.org

Condolences may be sent and notice viewed at www.bryantfh.net
Arrangements by Bryant Funeral Home 1425 Patton Road Great Bend, Kansas 67530