SISTER CLARE (MARIE CLARE) BOEHMER, ASC, 88, of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, died peacefully at 4:00am, Friday, March 7, 2025, at Benedictine Living Community at the Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows, Belleville, Illinois.
She was baptized Clara at St. Mary's Church in Conneaut, Ohio; she was the only child of Joseph and Anna Marie (nee Betz) Boehmer. Her family moved to the Midwest when she was young. She graduated from St. Teresa Academy in East St. Louis, Illinois, in 1954. Sister Clare made her first profession on July 1, 1960, and her final vows on July 1, 1965, at the Ruma Convent, Ruma, Illinois, and had been professed for 64 years.
Her bachelor's degree in English was earned in 1958, and her master's in 1968, both from St. Louis University. She studied Educational Media at Loyola University in Chicago and worked onsite at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. She completed her certification in Library Science through the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks in

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