Sister Frances Cabrini Wahlmeier died September 18, 2011 at Cloud County Health Center in Concordia , KS . She was 81 years old and a Sister of St. Joseph for 62 years. She was born in Jennings , KS on April 4, 1930 to Aloysius and Ruth Spohrer Wahlmeier, the sixth of fifteen children, and was baptized Mae Catherine. She entered the Sisters of St. Joseph, Concordia , KS on February 2, 1949. On August 14, 1949, Mae Catherine received the habit of the Sisters of St. Joseph and was given the name Sister Frances Cabrini. She pronounced first vows on August 15, 1950 and final vows on August 15, 1953.

Sister Frances Cabrini received a degree in Nursing from Marymount College in Salina in 1953. She served in hospitals staffed by the Sisters of St. Joseph in Sabetha, Atwood, and Manhattan , KS . In 1988 she returned to Concordia where she served as Administrator of St. Mary's Convent. Upon the closing of St. Mary's, she served as coordinator of healthcare services for the community at Nazareth Motherhouse until her retirement in 2008

Sister Frances Cabrini was preceded in death by her parents, one sister and four brothers. She is survived by four sisters, Loretta Byrne, Rita Pallante, Elaine Veach and Jane Cassidy; and five brothers, Hugh, Galen, John, Louis and Carl. A Bible Vigil Service will be (was) held September 19, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. in the Nazareth Motherhouse Chapel with Sister Pat McLennon as the eulogist. The Mass of Christian Burial will be (was) September 20, 2011 at 10:30 a.m. in the Motherhouse Chapel with Rev. Jim Hoover presiding. The burial will be in the Nazareth Motherhouse Cemetery . Memorials for Sister Frances Cabrini Wahlmeier may be given to the Sisters of St. Joseph Health Care/ Retirement Fund or the Apostolic Works of the Sisters; P.O Box 279, Concordia, KS 66901.