Scholastica or made online at the Mount’s web site (We wish the fullness of Shalom to the members of Sister Kathleen Egan and sister Mary Benet Obear’s families and to their many friends. Becker-Dyer-Stanton Funeral Home (is in charge of arrangements. She is survived by her sister-in-law, Mary Obear, nieces, nephews and her monastic family.

Sister Mary Benet was preceded in death by her parents, Alice and Howard Obear, by her four siblings: Howard Obear Jr., Jane Leiser, Peter Obear and Bettie Obear. After retiring, Sister Mary Benet worked in the monastery library. From 1981-95, she taught math and tutored students at Donnelly College. She was also director of pastoral care at a nursing home in Tucson, Ariz., for three years. She worked as an activity director at John Knox Village in Lee’s Summit, Mo., and Rockhill Care Center in Kansas City. She earned a master of science degree in chemistry and math from Marquette University and a master’s degree in gerontology from the University of Arizona.

She taught grade school and high school from 1948-1969. She entered the Benedictine sisters in Atchison in 1947 and professed monastic vows in 1948. Scholastica Academy in Chicago, she worked as an airline hostess and secretary. Sister Mary Benet Obear was the third of five children born to Alice and Howard Obear in Chicago, Ill. in the monastery chapel, and the Mass of Resurrection was celebrated there Monday, August 28 at 10:30 a.m. The vigil service was Sunday, August 27 at 7 p.m. Scholastica, Atchison, Kans., died Friday, Augat the monastery. If you see this sort of thing in the second hand shop, snap it up, and admire how clear and honest our predecessors' thoughts on complex issues used to be.Sister Mary Benet Obear, OSB, 95, a Benedictine sister of Mount St. Benet isn't overtrained, there's no deference to her professors or the literature, or even to Women's Lib insofar as they get anything wrong about her subject - writing solely in the interests of the class she describes, she's telling it like it is and coming up with insights right and left - this well-written book is as entertaining as its paperback status and slightly saucy cover promise, without being at all exploitative. Here there's nothing but a series of logical questions honestly answered, which paints a more complete, and at the time no doubt very useful, view of its subject than would be possible using modern methods. Both would tend to comply with a prearranged ideological view of the subject. Today this would fall under one of two categories - the emotive polemic best-seller or the academic paper. This is a good example of a fascinating genre - the enquiry into social problems of the 1950s-1970s.

Secretary by Mary Kathleen Benet