Summary
Sister Janice Friess, ASC, passed to eternal life Saturday morning, March 18, 2023, at Caritas Center, in Wichita. Sr. Janice was 94 years old and had been professed as an Adorer of the Blood of Christ for 76 years.
March 20, 2023
Sister Janice Friess, ASC, passed to eternal life Saturday morning, March 18, 2023, at Caritas Center, in Wichita. Sr. Janice was 94 years old and had been professed as an Adorer of the Blood of Christ for 76 years.
Sister Janice entered the novitiate on July 1, 1945, and made first vows a year later, receiving the name Mary Janice. Five years later, she made final vows on July 1, 1951.
Family was always important to Sr. Janice, and she delighted in celebrations like the annual reunion that brought more than a hundred relatives to an older sister’s home. She also celebrated her 50th and 60th jubilees with family and parishioners at St. Aloysius church in Ransom.
Preceding Sr. Janice in death were her parents, Mathias and Mayme, her brothers, Cletus, Lewis, Elmer, Donald, Warren, Dan, Eugene, and Bernard, and sisters, Laurene Marvin, Marjorie Flax, Anna Mae Ferguson and Janice Hornung. She is survived by brothers, Harold, Fred, and Maurice, and sisters, Mary Frances Flax, Rosella McLain, and Cathy Ator. She is survived by Sr. Tarcisia Roths, a cousin, as well as numerous nieces and nephews and members of the Sisters Adorers of the Blood of Christ.
Sister Janice will be welcomed home to the Wichita Center on Wednesday March 22, with a Wake Service taking place at 7:00 p.m. The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11:00 a.m. on March 23 with Fr. Jason Borkenhagen, a great-nephew, presider, and homilist, assisted by concelebrant Tom Welk, CPPS, chaplain. Burial in the Convent cemetery.
In 1975 Sr. Janice wrote, “I reap my daily strength from Him in Holy Mass and Communion. I pray that through my every effort to fulfill His Holy will I may reciprocate intimate and mutual love with Him, and reach the bond of perfection for which I am earnestly striving.” One last time you have said, “Yes” to God’s will for you in death to new life.
Adorers of the Blood of Christ, United States Region
Donations in memory of Sr. Jannice may be sent to the Adorers at 4233 Sulphur Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63109, or made online at www.adorers.org