Sister Mary Lawrence Hoffman, 84, died March 15, 2014, in the Dominican Sisters' Convent Infirmary, Great Bend. Born July 13, 1929, in Hays, Kansas, as Dorothy Ann Hoffman, Sister Mary Lawrence was the daughter of the late Michael William and Margaret Feltis Hoffman. She entered the Dominican Sisters' Community August 15, 1946, and pronounced her first vows June 10, 1949. She celebrated sixty years of religious profession in 2009. Sister Mary Lawrence was a teacher in parochial elementary schools of Kansas all of her ministerial life, most of the years from 1949 to 2000, and was principal of the grade school in Schulte. She taught in Garden City, Cunningham, Seward, Schulte, Kingman, and St. Rose - Great Bend. Following her teaching in Kingman she served as librarian of the school for five more years. She was also an instructor in logopedics in Central Kansas Medical Center from 1964 to 1967. She retired at the Motherhouse in Great Bend in 2005. Sister Mary Lawrence is survived by her Dominican Sisters of Peace Community and two sisters: Marcella Flax of Ellis, and Mercedes Huslig of Ellinwood. Sister Mary Lawrence's body will be brought to the hospitality area of the Dominican Chapel of the Plains, 3600 Broadway, Great Bend, on Tuesday, March 18, 2014, at 4:00 p.m., where it will lie in state until the Mass of Christian Burial at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, March 19, 2014, with Rev. Ted Stoecklein presiding. A wake service will be held Tuesday, March 18, 2014, at 7:00 p.m. Burial will be in the Sisters' Resurrection Cemetery. Friends may call at the convent Tuesday, March 18, from 5:00 p.m. until the time of the wake service at 7:00 p.m. and Wednesday morning from 8:00 a.m. until the time of the funeral. Both the wake and the funeral will be held at the convent. Memorials in honor of Sister Mary Lawrence may be sent to: Dominican Sisters of Peace, 2320 Airport Dr, Columbus OH 43219-2098. Bryant Funeral Home, Great Bend, is in charge of arrangements.