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Mrs. Fiedler was a fourth generation Chicagoan who was baptized at Holy Name Cathedral. She attended elementary school at the Academy of the Sacred Heart, was a boarding student at Sacred Heart (now Woodlands) Academy in Lake Forest, and briefly attended Manhattanville College (Purchase, NY). At the time of her death she was the oldest living alumna of Sacred Heart. She and her husband were married by Cardinal Mundelein at his residence chapel in 1931. Mrs. Fiedler was an honorary alumna of Loyola University and a founding member of its Women’s Board. In her younger years Mrs. Fiedler was active in a number of Catholic charities including Madonna Center, a west side settlement house founded in 1898 by her grandmother, Agnes Ward Amberg; St. Vincent’s Infant Hospital in Chicago; and Maryville City of Youth in Des Plaines where she served as a trustee for over twenty years. Mrs. Fiedler moved to Winnetka with her husband in 1940. There she was an active member of Saints Faith, Hope, and Charity parish for almost sixty years.
Sister Susan Maxwell, RSCJ, commented that “Agnes has been a great gift during the past five years or so. In my position as Director at Sacred Heart schools it was always just great to walk into Agnes' room and experience her tremendous support for all that we are trying to do and be for our stu-dents and their families. Her spirit was contagious and enlivening and I am so grateful for having known her. She was a woman who combined great faith with genuine compassion and concern for oth-ers.” Father Daniel Flaherty, SJ, said of her: “She was a woman who saw her vocation in life, through good times or bad, with family or others, to follow Christ’s example of compassionate love in the small and seemingly simple ways of everyday life, day after day, in season and out of season: a welcoming smile, an offer to help in any way she could, and a whispered prayer.” |
