Sister Camilla (Margaret) Dilger, age 100, died at 7:00 p.m. Monday, August 19, 2002, at Maryhouse Nursing Home in Pierre, South Dakota.

Margaret was born December 22, 1901, the tenth of twelve children of Stephen and Margaret Zentner Kilger. After the death of her father in 1928, her mother remarried. The family lived on a farm east of Richardton, North Dakota.

Sister Camilla believed that her vocation to the monastic life came through the prayers of her mother. At age 15, Margaret entered Sacred Heart Convent in Yankton, later transferring to the newly founded Mother of God Monastery.

Highlights of Sister Camilla's mission experiences were managing the convent-school farm at Zell, South Dakota with its cows, pigs, chickens and ducks; being in charge of the laundry or cooking at other places, and serving as matron to the boarders. Her favorite places as matron were the Indian missions at Chamberlain and at Stephan on the Crow Creek Reservation. She also remembered fondly her time at St. Ann's Hospital in Watertown where she did sewing and mending. Sister Camilla also ministered at Sacred Heart Hospital and Convent in Yankton, St. Benedict's hospital in Tyndall, St. Mary's Hospital in Pierre, and in the schools at Kranzburg, Hoven, Zell, Tabor, Ipswich and Polo, all in South Dakota.

Sister Camilla is survived by her Sisters of Mother of God Monastery and by many nieces and nephews.