Aberdeen: Sister Peter Dangel, 96, a Sister of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, died Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, at Mother Joseph Manor.
The Resurrection Liturgy for Sister Peter will be Monday, March 4, 2013, at 11 a.m. in Blessed Sacrament Chapel at Presentation Convent in Aberdeen.
A wake service will be Sunday, March 3, 2013, at 7 p.m. in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel.
Father David Roehrich will be celebrant and homilist.
Burial will be at the Sacred Heart Cemetery, with Spitzer-Miller Funeral Home, 1111 S. Main St., in charge of arrangements.
Bertha Dangel was born June 21, 1916, in Freeman, S.D., to Katherine (Bauer) and John Dangel. She received her elementary education in a country school until the seventh grade, and then went to St. Mary's School in Marion, S.D., for the eighth grade. She graduated from Hurley High School in 1935. She taught rural schools from 1936-42 and worked as a sales clerk in Yankton before entering Presentation Convent on Jan. 6, 1950. She made her first profession of vows on Aug. 10, 1952.
Sister Peter attended Presentation Junior College and Yankton College. She received a bachelor of science degree in education from Northern State University in 1966. She ministered in the various diocesan schools in Jefferson, Mitchell, Bridgewater, Milbank, Madison, Sioux Falls and Aberdeen, all in South Dakota, and in Anoka, Minn., from 1952 to 1985. She worked as a volunteer at McKennan Hospital from 1985-95 before retiring to the Motherhouse in Aberdeen in 1995. She resided at Mother Joseph Manor from November 2011 until her death.
Sister Peter is survived by her community of Presentation Sisters and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Katherine and John; four sisters: Mary, Katherine, Sister Agnes (Tarcisius) PBVM, and Loretta; and four brothers: John, Frank, Art and Albert.
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