Sister Margaret Ann Schlosser's Story & Gallery
Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration Margaret Ann Schlosser was born in 1916 in Lima, Wisconsin. She entered St. Rose Convent in La Crosse, Wisconsin, in 1935, and made her profession of vows in 1938. Sister Margaret Ann earned her bachelor’s in education from Viterbo College in La Crosse and her master’s in education from the University of Detroit and taught for 28 years in schools in Washington and Wisconsin, including six years at Immaculate Conception in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. After teaching, Sister Margaret Ann moved to Troy, Michigan, where she served in parish ministry and then, for two years, in religious education. She also taught adult religious education in the La Crosse Diocesan Office for several years, served as the FSPA Postulant Mistress for one year and as the FSPA Aspirant Mistress for one year. In 1980 her dream of serving solely as an artist was realized. From 1980 to 2000, she served as an adult art instructor teaching throughout the La Crosse region.
Sister Margaret Ann was a prolific artist with a lifelong love of painting. To this day, her paintings adorn many of the walls at St. Rose. She was particularly inspired by nature, painting many colorful landscapes and flowers in the mediums of oil and watercolor. On her art she is quoted saying, “All my life I have painted with my mind. It has only been since I retired that I began using the brush.” She moved to Villa St. Joseph in La Crosse in 2000 and, at the age of 90, died there in 2007.
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