Sister Theophane Reinecke, O.S.B. ,96, a Benedictine Sister of Mount St. Scholastica, Atchison, Kans., died on January 4, 2012 at the monastery. The vigil will be at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, January 6 and the Mass of Resurrection will be on Saturday, January 7 at 10:30 a.m. both in the monastery chapel.Sister Theophane was born February 1, 1915, the oldest of the seven children of John and Rose Hohe Reinecke, Baileyville, Kans. She attended Baileyville schools until her senior year, graduated from Mount St. Scholastica Academy, Atchison, and entered the Benedictine community there in 1932. She made monastic profession in 1934, and final profession in 1937. Sister Theophane graduated from Mount St. Scholastica College with a bachelor¡¯s degree in education, and earned the Master of Arts in education from the University of Notre Dame. She also did graduate work in counseling at Notre Dame, Kansas State Teachers College (Emporia), and the College of St. Thomas, Minneapolis. For 46 years she taught in community schools including Guardian Angels (Kansas City, Mo.), LeBlond High School (St. Joseph, Mo.), and in Creston, Iowa, Flush, Kans., and Atkinson, Nebr. She spent much of her career as teacher and principal of Mount St. Scholastica Academy (1957-1965) and as dorm director there (1969-1981). She also began the Catholic school in Ottawa, Kans., and was principal there 1948-1957. When she retired from academic services, she served in the business offices of Benedictine College, Mount St. Scholastica Academy, and her monastery. Her students and colleagues remember her as a capable woman of prayer and refinement.She was predeceased by her parents and siblings Frank, Clarence, Rita Holthaus and Clara Sextvern, and is survived by her sisters Helen Stallbaumer and Rose Ann Nordhus, her brother-in-law George Holthaus, by nieces and nephews, and by her monastic community. Becker-Dyer-Stanton Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.