Sister Mary Ann Connolly, OP
Funeral Mass for Sister Mary Ann Connolly, OP, 92, who died at the Mohun Health Care Center in Columbus on Wednesday, May 28. was celebrated on Wednesday, June 11. Burial was at St. Joseph Cemetery, Columbus.
She was born on June 3, 1932 in Cincinnati to John and Frances (Koetters) Connolly and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1957 from the College of St. Mary of the Springs (now Ohio Dominican University), took courses in Spanish in 1963 at the University of Madrid and earned a doctorate in Spanish in 1969 from Yale University.
She entered the Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Springs (now the Dominican Sisters of Peace) in 1952 and professed her vows on July 9, 1954, taking the name Sister Killian.
In the Diocese of Columbus, she taught English and Spanish at Columbus St. Mary of the Springs Academy from 1957 to 1959 and was a faculty member at Ohio Dominican from 1977 to 1985. She also was a teacher at schools in New Mexico and Pennsylvania; taught at Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, Connecticut; was director of Catholic Charities for the Diocese of Venice, Florida; and spent two separate periods totaling 25 years at the sisters’ mission in Chimbote, Peru.
From there, she returned to the Motherhouse in 2012, where she served for eight years as secretary of the congregation’s leadership team before entering a life of prayer in 2023. She had been a resident of the Mohun center since earlier this year.
She was preceded in death by her parents, and brothers John and James. She is survived by nieces and nephews.
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