Ann Kernen, SCN Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Ann Kernen, SCN, 90, (formerly Sister Anthony) was born in Frankfort, Kentucky on Oct. 18, 1931. She died June 6, 2022, in Louisville, Kentucky. She was a professed Sister of Charity of Nazareth for 70 years. Sister Ann’s early ministries were in education. She taught Kindergarten and first grade and was a music teacher to primary grades. She taught seventh grade at St. Lawrence in Louisville. She earned her undergraduate degree in education from Spalding University in Louisville and her master’s in guidance from Michigan State. She then attended Aquinas Institute of Theology in Dubuque, Iowa, for the formation director program and served in the novitiate at Nazareth from 1972-1976. Following a year-long sabbatical, Sister Ann served her religious community as assistant provincial. She later was the assistant coordinator at Nazareth Home in Louisville. From 1999-2002 she was the associate regional for the US southern region of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth Congregation. After several months of study and orientation in Mokama, India, Sister Ann served as a counselor and in pastoral ministry in Kathmandu, Nepal. Sister Ann later served in Belize in parish ministry and as the vocations director in Belize. Sister Ann served in health care as vice president of mission in London, Kentucky at Marymount Hospital; as Appalachian outreach counselor at St. Joseph Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky; and as a chaplain at Flaget Hospital in Bardstown Kentucky. She is survived by her sister, Sister Mary Joyce Kernen SCN, by her extended family, and by her religious community, the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth. Visitation and Wake Service will be held at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 14th in the Columba Room at Nazareth. Her Funeral Mass will be celebrated Wednesday, June 15th at 10:30 a.m. also in the Columba Room, followed by burial in the Nazareth Motherhouse Cemetery. The service will be livestreamed at https://nazareth.org/live. Funeral Arrangements are being handled by Ratterman Funeral Home, 3800 Bardstown Road, Louisville, Ky. Memorials may be made to Office of Mission Advancement, P.O. Box 9, Nazareth, Ky. 40048. Online condolences may be shared at www.ratterman.com.

Ann Kernen, SCN

October 18, 1931 - June 6, 2022

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