Sister Marina cared for many old people in Münsing and the surrounding area with great devotion until they died.
She has now passed away at the age of 94.
Münsing
- The Münsing Parish Association mourns the loss of Sister Marina, a member of the order of the family sisters.
One week after moving to the Kreszentia-Stift in Munich, she died unexpectedly quickly on August 24 at the age of 94.
The Kuratie Holzhausen announced.
Johanna Lindner, as her real name was, was a trained geriatric nurse and looked after the elderly in the entire district for decades.
Born in Gibbach in the district of Amberg, she lent a hand in her parents' farm after completing vocational school and was also active in her home parish until she got a job as a ward helper in the Siegenburg hospital in 1953.
In 1955 the devout Catholic entered the religious order of the family sisters, where she was given the name Marina.
She worked in the hospice, in the maternal convalescence facility, in the order's agriculture at Gut Holzen in Icking and in the order's own hotel "European Court" in Munich.
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Sister Marina was a geriatric nurse in Münsing for many years.
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In Prien and Kochel she gained her first experience in elderly care in the 1970s.
She enjoyed the job, so she completed an apprenticeship as a geriatric nurse.
From 1975 to 1978 she initially looked after her older sisters in the family sisters' villa in Obermenzing.
After the nurses' house in Ambach was rebuilt, she came there in 1978.
At the same time she was employed as a mobile nurse in the Caritas welfare station in Geretsried, from where she looked after senior citizens in several places in the district.
Care for the elderly was her life's work
"Caring for the elderly at home has become a central life task for Sister Marina," says Pastor Martin Kirchbichler from the Münsing Parish Association - "a big, beautiful, difficult and up to now often underestimated task." Corona changed that somewhat .
Nursing and nursing staff are suddenly being referred to as “everyday heroes”, says Kirchbichler.
Sister Marina was such a “heroine” much earlier.
In wind and weather she was on the move, partly as far as the Jachenau.
The friendly woman came to many houses and often almost belonged to the family.
She also worked as a sexton in Ambach
Even in her free time, Sister Marina was there for those who needed her help.
She accompanied many on the last phase of their lives.
This earned her great appreciation from the Ambach population and in the whole area.
Her above-average commitment was the reason that she received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon in 1998.
The superior of the Ambach sisters took care of the chapel in Ambach for many years as a sacristan and took over the sacristy service on Saturdays.
She initiated the monthly hospital service in the nursing home.
For years she gave the communion children of the Holzhausen Curate with sheep they had knitted themselves.
"In her interpersonal relationships, Sister Marina was guided by the principle: giving is more blissful than receiving," says Kirchbichler.
In 2000 the family sister retired as an outpatient geriatric nurse.
In 2004 she was transferred to the Ordensvilla in Obermenzing, although the people would have liked to keep her in Ambach.
As long as she could, she helped in the villa and looked after a nursing sister until her death.
On August 24th her own long, busy and fulfilled life came to an end.
Sister Marina was buried in the Munich forest cemetery.
Tanja Lühr