Carondelet Sister Judith Marie Klump taught 10 years in Hawaii at 3 schools

Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet Judith Marie Klump, who taught in Catholic elementary schools in Hawaii more than 40 years ago, died at the Nazareth Living Center in St. Louis, Mo., on Feb. 3. She was 79 and a religious sister for 58 years.

Sister Judith Marie came to Hawaii in 1962 to teach at St. Joseph School, Waipahu. The next year she was sent to Christ the King School in Kahului, Maui, where she was on the faculty for seven years. In 1970, she moved back to Oahu to teach at St. Anthony School in Kailua.

She left Hawaii in 1972.

Sister Judith Marie born on May 13, 1929, in Perryville, Mo., into a family of 12 children and given the baptismal name of Doris. She entered the convent and received the habit and name Sister Judith Marie on March 19, 1950.

Before coming to Hawaii she taught in elementary and intermediate schools in Missouri, Wisconsin and Michigan.

She left the classroom after leaving Hawaii, moving into parish ministry and religious education, and in the last 18 years of her life, prison ministry.

Her funeral Mass was Feb. 6 at the Nazareth Living Center and she was buried the same day in Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis, Mo.

She is survived by her brothers, Allen, Robert, Jerome, Clyde, Donald, Richard and Thomas, and her sisters Betty Palmer and Gloria Stenzel.