My name is Rose Catherine Mager and I was born in 1901. I was three years old when my mom got tuberculosis and I was placed in the care of the Sisters at their convent in Colton, Washington.  When I was 12, I was sent to the Cottonwood convent and I got to see the brand new blue prophyry rock Monastery get built. I professed vows at 17 and was given the name Sr. Herman Joseph after a German saint.
I wasn't very excited when the prioress told me Sr. Herman Joseph would be my name, but in the 1960's when Sisters could take back their baptismal names I kept Herman Joseph.  Like many of the Sisters, I studied the saint for whom I was named and was proud to carry his name.
I loved working outside at the Monastery with the farm animals.  I was also a domestic worker at the two Catholic hospitals the Sisters opened in Wendell and Jerome and at six parish schools.  
I retired at age 70 and the second part of my life of service began in Grangeville.  I moved into the convent building by Sts. Peter & Paul School, donned my colorful tennis shoes and pulled my trusty wagon all over town.  I'd collect food grocery stores planned to discard, fruit and vegetables that anyone cared to share, and brought it to the sick and the shut-ins.  People nicknamed me the Road-Runner.  I passed in 1991 at the age of 90. 
I've been gone for thirty years, but I worry about those shut-ins and the sick.  Please find out if there are any in your neighborhood and visit them.  Get out your trusty wagon and fill it with your extra garden produce to share. Until later!  I'll see you in heaven!