ST. CATHARINE, Ky. — Sister Denise Mueting, 87, died July 28 at the Dominican Sisters of Peace Sansbury Care Center here. She was born Sept. 28, 1938, in Axtell, the daughter of Leo and Marie (Buessing) Mueting.
She entered the Dominican Sisters community on Aug. 30, 1956, and pronounced vows on June 13, 1959. In 1961, Sister Denise got her bachelor’s degree in education from Sacred Heart College in Wichita. She received her master’s degree in education from Cardinal Stritch College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1973.
In 1969, Sister Denise won the Outstanding Young Teacher award. She participated in commission meetings and volunteered as eucharistic minister at Lutheran Medical Center and Hospice in Wheat Ridge and St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood, both in Colorado. She enjoyed line dancing, hiking, reading, attending cultural events, dance lessons and relaxing at the cabin above Cripple Creek.
From 1961 to 1982, Sister Denise taught in grade schools in Clonmel, Willowdale, Great Bend, and Hutchinson, Kansas, and Westminster, Colorado. After taking a year to work with the Active Spirituality Program in Cincinnati, Ohio, she came back to Kansas, teaching primary grades in Garden City and Haysville. In 1989, she went back to Colorado, working for archdiocesan housing and The Gardens at St. Elizabeth Retirement Center in Denver. She retired to the Great Bend motherhouse in 2020 and in 2026 moved to the Sansbury Care Center.
