Sister Clovis Seyer, a native of Kelso, Mo., died Friday, May 18, 2001, at Anna House-The Sarah Community in Bridgeton, Mo. She was 86.
She taught primary and intermediate education for 18 years in schools throughout Missouri and Illinois, including at St. Mary School in Cape Girardeau in 1951 and 1952. She also worked as a cook and seamstress for 20 years for the congregation in St. Louis as well as for St. Alphonsus Liguori.
She retired to Villa Gesu, the now-closed School Sisters of Notre Dame retirement center in north St. Louis County, in 1973. She moved to Anna House-The Sarah Community in 1999.
She is survived by two sisters, Irma Lappe of Cape Girardeau and Delphine Longinette of St. Louis; and five brothers, Mark Seyer of East Cape Girardeau, Ill., and the Rev. James Seyer, Oscar Seyer, Vincent Seyer and Joseph Seyer, all of Cape Girardeau.
Visitation will be from 2 to 3 p.m. Monday at Anna House-The Sarah Community on the campus of SSM DePaul Health Center in Bridgeton and from 4 to 8 p.m. in the School Sisters of Notre Dame Motherhouse Chapel in Lemay, Mo. A prayer service will be held at 7 p.m. Monday.
A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in the SSMC Motherhouse Chapel.
Burial will be at the Notre Dame Motherhouse cemetery.
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