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- Sister Marian Therese Muehlbauer, baptized Janet Theresa, was born in Green Bay, Wis. She entered the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in 1953 and was received into the novitiate in 1954. She received a bachelors degree in history from Fontbonne College in 1963 and a masters degree in elementary education from the University of Hawaii in 1970.
Sister Marian Therese has served 50 of her 60 years as a religious, in education She began as a primary grade school teacher in 1956 in St. Louis at St. Agnes Grade School and then at St. Mary Grade School in Bridgeton from 1958-1965.
She then taught two years at St. Anthony Grade School in Atlanta before beginning the first 17 of 32 years of service in the Diocese of Honolulu.
In 1967 she taught in Honolulu first at Holy Trinity Grade School and then at St. Theresa Grade School. From 1970 to 1982, she taught at St. Joseph Grade School in Waipahu. She finished the first segment of her service in Hawaii at St. Therese Grade School, then she returned to the mainland in 1984.
Sister then taught for nearly ten years in Kansas City, Mo, first at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Grade School and then at St. Elizabeth Grade School. Sister Marian answered the call to return to Honolulu and taught for the next 15 years at St. Theresa Grade School.
While in Hawaii, she also taught religion classes to the public school children, coached students for the speech competitions, and organized the speech club at St. Theresa School. With the help of dedicated lay teachers, she led the students in monthly meetings to implement the N.C. E. A. Vision and Value program.
It was her privilege to visit the island of Molokai where St. Damien and St. Marianne Cope ministered to the lepers. A guided tour with a visit to the church built by Damien and to the burial places of Damien and Marianne led to a greater understanding of their heroic lives and to a prayerful devotion to these two Hawaiian saints.
Since her return to St. Louis in 2008, Sister Marian Therese has served her CSJ community as a hospitality associate for the St. Joseph Provincial House and as a volunteer at the Carondelet Literacy Center.
Sister Marian Therese is an avid Green Bay Packer fan and looks forward to next season when Aaron Rogers will be completely healed and ready for the challenge of the NFL.
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