Sister Edna Nemec, 64, died on Sunday, January 2, 2000, in a Sioux Falls, South Dakota Hospital following a massive heart attack. Sister Edna (Angela) was born in Pierre, South Dakota, the daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Puryear Nemec. She and her nine sisters and seven brothers grew up on a ranch 15 miles northeast of Midland. She attended country school 2 1/2 miles from home for eight years and graduated from Midland High School. She began her nurse's training at Sacred Heart Hospital in Yankton in 1954, but interrupted her course of study to enter Sacred Heart Convent. Graduating from Nursing in 1960, S. Edna returned to Pierre where she worked at St. Mary's Hospital from 1960 -1965. In 1965, she enrolled in the graduate program at SDSU in Brookings, graduating in 1967, with a degree in Nursing.  Sister Edna became a Founding member of Mother of God Monastery, when the Monastery was established in 1961. In February of 1967, S. Edna accepted a position as nursing instructor at the Pierre School of Practical Nursing. She was appointed Director of the School in 1970, a position she held until the school closed in 1985.  Sister Edna was very active in her professional life and served on the SD State Board of Nursing, the Statewide Core Curriculum Project, the National Accrediting Review Board of the National Association for Practical Nurse Education, the Board of Directors of St. Mary's Hospital and St. Mary's Foundation in Pierre, the Prairie Lakes Health System Board of Directors, and the Mother of God Monastery Council.  Sister Edna graduated from the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, MN, with a Masters Degree in the Psychology of the Aging Process in 1986. She returned to Watertown in 1992, where she was appointed the first Administrator of Benet Place. S. Edna moved to Gettysburg in 1996, where she was currently employed as a staff nurse at the Gettysburg Medical Center.  Sister Edna is survived by her brothers Edward Jr. and Benjamin of Holabird, SD, Joseph of Des Moines, IA, Leo of Little Fork, MN, Anthony of Gillette, WY, and Michael and Mark, both of Midland,SD; her sisters Elizabeth VanderMay of Longvalley, SD, Frances Terkildsen of Kadoka, SD, Wynn Bergeson of Ft. Pierre, SD, Pauline Bruce of Hayes, SD, Christine Ryan of Tolna, ND, Audrey Jones of Midland, SD, Bernadette Knox of Highmore, SD, Rita Foreng of Sioux Falls, SD; and her Sisters of Mother of God Monastery.