The daughter of Frank and Anna Marie Ramold, Anna Louise was born in Billings, Montana, on November 1, 1921. She began her schooling in 1927 at Shepperd School in Billings. When the family returned to Nebraska, she entered St. Mary Elementary School in Nebraska City and was taught by the Ursuline Sisters. Following her graduation from St. Bernard Academy, Anna Louise enrolled in Mount Saint Joseph Junior College, earning an associate degree, graduating with honor. She successfully completed the U.S. Civil Service Examination and accepted a position with the Federal Government in Washington, D.C. In September 1942, she entered the novitiate at Mount Saint Joseph. Anna Louise received the Ursuline habit on August 14, 1943. She was given the name Sister Mary Regis.
Following two years’ novitiate training, Sister Mary Regis began her teaching apostolate at St. Teresa Elementary School in Glennonville, Missouri. She was then missioned to Farmington and Waterflow in New Mexico. She returned to Kentucky to teach at St. Francis, Flaherty, and New Haven. In 1959, she began study at The Catholic University in Washington, D.C., earning master’s and doctoral degrees in sociology in 1964. She came to Brescia College and taught in the sociology department for 24 years. She took leave from Brescia the scholastic year of 1979‑1980 to serve as exchange teacher of sociology at Viterbo College in La Crosse, Wisconsin. During that time, she reclaimed her baptismal name, Anna Louise. She returned to Brescia College and remained head of the sociology department and assistant to the academic dean until 1988. Through her leadership, Brescia College students actively participated in programs of advocacy for the poor, the elderly, and the disenfranchised. Through the student organizations and outreach programs Sister Anna Louise initiated on campus, Brescia College became a voice in the community, promoting a more compassionately just society.
Sister Anne Louise battled cancer for years undergoing surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation treatments. She spent the first semester of 1988 in the infirmary at Mount Saint Joseph, but returned to Brescia College for the second semester and remained there until a few weeks before her death on April 1, 1989. The following day, wake services were held at the Brescia College chapel and in the chapel at Mount Saint Joseph. Whatsoever You Do, the hymn chosen to conclude the wake services, captured the essence of her special dedication to the poor, the elderly and the forgotten. On April 3, Father Anthony Shonis, chaplain, and Father Leonard Alvey, homilist, concelebrated the funeral Mass, followed by the burial of her remains in the convent cemetery.