Sister Anne Catherine Boone, OP
Born: September 5, 1929
Professed: March 7, 1949
Born to Eternal Life: July 18, 2008
Alice Genevieve (Gen) Boone was born September 5, 1929, in Springfield, KY. Her
parents, Joseph William and Mary Angela Roberts Boone and her siblings Joseph,
James, William and Margaret preceded her in death. She is survived by her
brothers Charles and Benedict and sister Theresa Allison.
After graduating from St. Catharine Academy in May, 1947, she entered St.
Catharine congregation the following September receiving the name Sister Anne
Catherine. On March 7, 1949 she made her first profession.
Sr. Anne Catherine began her long and productive teaching career in Missouri Valley, IA and continued on in Omaha, Lincoln, Spalding, Greeley, and Kearney, Nebraska; Chicago, Arlington Heights, and Orland Park, Illinois; Jeffersonville, Indiana; and Louisville, Kentucky.
She received her B.A. in Education/Biology at Siena College and her M.A. in Elementary Ed/Jr. High Science at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, S.D.
Teaching was her passion. She demanded discipline in her classes designed to bring out the best in her students academically and spiritually. In 1998 she was named the first ever Educator of the Year at Kearney Catholic High School. She was chosen for the honor by the KCHS Foundation after being nominated by several of her teaching colleagues as well as students and community members.
In addition to her time in the classroom she spent hours on extra curricular activities such as coaching the Kearney Catholic Jr. High Math Counts teams and coaching the girls’ volleyball team. She enjoyed all sports in which the students participated.
Because of her many years in Nebraska, people often thought of her as a Nebraskan. However, she never lost her love for her native Kentucky as evidenced by her bringing jonquil bulbs from the Valley to plant in her yard in Kearney.
At the time of her retirement in 2003, Fr. Charles Torpey, pastor of St. James Church in Kearney, wrote to her, “I am sorry to see you go, not only because you are a religious and the last Kentucky Dominican at Kearney Catholic, but because you have so strongly influenced and guided and formed so many students (and parents) at K.C. over these 25 years.”
Whenever Sr. Anne Catherine met a student in the hall during class time she always asked, “Where are going?” After hearing the answer she would reply, “Go where you belong."
"Today, Anne, we know where you have gone, and we rejoice that you are where you belong."
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