Sister Mary Urban Hitschmann, O.P., 77, died December 29, 2007 at the Dominican Sisters' convent infirmary, Great Bend, Kansas. She was born Celestine Marie Hitschmann November 20, 1930 at Redwing, Kansas, the daughter of Frank and Veronica Feltes Hitschmann. She entered the Dominican Sisters' community November 1, 1954, pronouncing her first vows June 13, 1957. Sr. Urban celebrated fifty years of religious profession in 2007. Sister Urban worked in health care for thirty-two years of her ministerial life, working as nurse, floor supervisor, head nurse, psychiatric nurse, and chemotherapy, ICU, and ER nurse in the community's four hospitals, St. Joseph Memorial, Larned, Kansas; Sacred Heart, Lamar, Colorado; St. Catherine, Garden City, Kansas; and Central Kansas Medical Center, Great Bend, Kansas. Her second ministry, which she began in 1989, was housing manager at Cedar Park Place in Great Bend, a HUD housing facility for elderly and handicapped. She retired in 2001 due to illness. Surviving Sister Urban is one brother, Everett Hitschmann, Hoisington, Kansas. Sister Mary Urban's body will be brought to the hospitality area of the Dominican Chapel of the Plains, 3600 Broadway, Great Bend, at 4:30 p.m., Sunday, December 30, 2007, where it will lie in state until the Liturgy of Christian Burial at 10:00 a.m., Monday, December 31, 2007. A wake service will be held at 7:00 p.m., Sunday, December 30, 2007. Burial will be in the Sisters' Resurrection Cemetery. The wake and the funeral will be held at the convent. Memorials are suggested to Dominican Sisters Ministry Fund, Office of Mission and Ministry, 3600 Broadway, Great Bend, Kansas 67530-3692. Bryant Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Friends may call at the convent from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m., Sunday, December 30, 2007 and from 9:00 a.m. to service time, Monday, December 31, 2007.