Sister Ruth Klein, 97, died Saturday, October 13, 2012, in the Dominican Sisters of Peace convent infirmary,
Great Bend.

Born January 22, 1915, in Lincoln NE, as Ruth Rose Klein, Sister Ruth was the daughter of the late Anthony
and Mary Helen Hoffman Klein. She entered the Dominican Sisters’ Community in Great Bend July 2, 1930,
and pronounced her first vows August 17, 1933. She celebrated seventy-five years of religious profession in
2008.

Sister Ruth began her ministerial life as a teacher of grades 1 – 4 in 1934, but she will be most remembered
for her education and ministry in music. She taught music lessons for many years to students of grade school
and especially to high school and college age young religious of her religious community. She instructed
in Gregorian chant and other forms of liturgical music as well as playing organ and piano. She even taught
liturgical music in Jamaica for several years. Sister Ruth was also accomplished in cooking and sewing and had
designed and made liturgical vestments as well as clothing.

Sister Ruth is survived by her Dominican Sisters of Peace community and two sisters: Sister Marie and Sister
Marie Antoinette both of the Great Bend Dominican Sisters. Her cousin, Sister Mary Ann Klein is also a
member of the Dominican Sisters of Peace in Great Bend.

Sister Ruth’s body will be brought to the hospitality area of the Dominican Chapel of the Plains, 3600
Broadway, Great Bend, on Monday, October 15, 2012, at 4:00 p.m., where it will lie in state until the Liturgy of
Christian Burial at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, October 17, 2012, with Rev. Wesley Schawe, Rev. Ted Stoecklein,
and Rev Frances Oroffa MSP concelebrating. A wake service will be held Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 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 Ruth 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 Tuesday, October 16 from
9:00 a.m. until the time of the wake service, and Wednesday, October 17, from 9:00 a.m. until the time of the
funeral service.