S. Anna Rose Kraus
80th Jubilee
Sister Anna Rose Kraus, CSJ
Biographical:
Sister Anna Rose Kraus, baptized Dorothy, was born in Jerseyville, Illinois. She entered the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in 1929 and was received into the novitiate in 1930. She received a bachelor’s degree in education from Fontbonne College in 1942 and a master’s degree in hearing/speech therapy from Western Reserve University in 1952.
Service in the Archdiocese of St. Louis:
Sister Anna Rose was dedicated to her ministry in deaf education. She served for 29 years at St. Joseph Institute for the Deaf as teacher and superior. In 1961 she began a training program at Fontbonne University for teachers of the deaf. She again served at St. Joseph Institute for the Deaf as director of volunteers from 1979 to 1994. Sister Anna Rose served her CSJ community in the 1970s as a formation team member for the St. Joseph Novitiate.
Service outside the Archdiocese:
Sister served as administrator for the St. Joseph Carondelet Child Center in the 1960s and 1970s in Chicago, Illinois.
About Sister Anna Rose Kraus, CSJ:
Sister Anna has made many remarkable contributions to her CSJ community and the St. Louis community as a whole. She has been dedicated to the St. Joseph Institute for the Deaf for the majority of her ministry. In 1962 S. Anna was asked to spearhead two major funding raising projects for her community: a campaign to raise two million dollars to erect a new Nazareth Convent and a campaign to raise $300,000 to build Celestine Hall at St. Joseph Institute. Both goals were reached. Sister retired in 1997.
Since 2000, Sister Anna Rose has resided at Nazareth Living Center in South County where she continues to carry out her ministry of prayer and witness.
