Sister Cassian (Florence) Peters
St. Joseph
November 10, 1922 – October 18, 2008

The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. on Thursday, October 23, 2008, in the Sacred Heart Chapel, Saint Benedict’s Monastery, St. Joseph, for
Sister Cassian Peters who died on October 18, 2008, at Saint Benedict’s Senior Community, St. Cloud. Burial will be in the monastery cemetery. Friends may call at Saint Scholastica Convent on Wednesday, October 22, from 1-6 p.m., or for a Prayer Vigil Service at 7 p.m. at Saint Benedict’s Monastery. Visitation continues at 9 a.m. until the time of the funeral on Thursday, October 23, at 11 a.m.

S. Cassian was born on November 10, 1922, to Nicholas and Josephine (Moeller) Peters in Cold Spring, Minn., where she later attended St. Boniface Grade and High School. She entered Saint Benedict’s Monastery on September 15, 1940, made her first monastic profession on July 11, 1942, and perpetual profession on July 11, 1945. She attended St. Alexius School of Nursing in Bismarck, N.D., and graduated from St. Cloud Hospital School of Nursing. In nursing education, she earned a B.S. degree at The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. and an M. Ed. degree at the University of Minnesota.

Her lifelong health care ministry was in Utah and Minnesota. At Saint Benedict’s Hospital School of Nursing (Ogden), she served as both a professor and the director of the baccalaureate nursing program. She also chaired the Utah Board of Nursing and taught at Weber State College (Ogden) and Westminster College (Salt Lake City). In Minnesota, S. Cassian served as director of St. Cloud Hospital School of Nursing and developed the in-service continuing education program there. She was a staff nurse at Saint Benedict’s Senior Community, St. Cloud, and was employed as assistant professor of nursing at the College of St. Catherine, St. Mary’s Campus, Minneapolis. After returning to Saint Benedict’s Monastery in 1996, she assisted with health care and moved to Saint Scholastica in December 2005.

S. Cassian is survived by members of her Benedictine community, brother-in-law Don Kolb, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. Two brothers (Marcian [Ambrose], OSB, and Edward) and three sisters (Mildred Kolb, Margaret Cavanaugh and Edwina Cannon) preceded her in death.