Sister Mary Zigo

Funeral Mass for Sister Mary Zigo, OSF, 106, who died Wednesday, Nov. 23, was celebrated Monday, Nov. 29 at the Holy Family Convent in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Burial was in the convent cemetery.

She was born on Oct. 11, 1916 in Pittsburgh to Stephen and Katharine (Kucey) Zigo and grew up in Zanesville. 

She earned a bachelor of science degree from St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin. She entered the Franciscan Sisters of Charity convent in Manitowoc in 1932 and professed her vows in 1935, taking the name Sister Medard.

In the Diocese of Columbus, she taught at Zanesville St. Nicholas School. After retiring, she tutored and performed a variety of ministries at St. Nicholas Church, Wellston Sts. Peter and Paul Church and in Manitowoc. She also was a principal in West Virginia and a teacher in the Diocese of Steubenville and nine schools in Wisconsin. 

She was preceded in death by her parents; stepmother Anna (Soter) Zigo; brother, Paul (Rita) Zigo; and Joseph Zigo; sister, Phyllis (John) Stone;  stepbrothers, George (Anna) Soter, John (Faye) Soter and Mike (Mary) Soter; stepsister, Mary (Orville) Graves; half-brothers, Joseph (Betty) Zigo; and half-sisters, Margaret (Glen) Corbin and Rose (Edward) Donnely. 

COX, Patricia A. (Thibaut), 92, Nov. 10

St. Mary, Mother of God Church, Columbus

CREAMER, Raymond G., 91, Nov. 21

St. Elizabeth Seton Parish, Pickerington

EHRET, Ellen E., 53, Nov. 3

St. Thomas More Newman Center, Columbus 

ERNST, Angela D. (Giorgio), 89, Nov. 15

St. Joan of Arc Church, Powell

GOLDEN, Dorothy Marie, 95, Nov. 10

St. Joseph Church, Plain City

GRANNAN, Ruth (Herron), 94, Nov. 20 

Holy Spirit Church, Columbus 

KOCOLOSKI, Josephine, 100, Nov. 15

St. Nicholas Church, Zanesville

MALAS. Stephanie L. (Crawford), 54, Nov. 16

St. Andrew Church, Columbus

McAVOY, Mark, 68, Nov. 11

St. Pius X Church, Reynoldsburg

O’BRIEN, Elizabeth J. (Richardson), formerly of Columbus, 98, Nov. 16

Immaculate Conception Church, Traverse City, Mich.

PIATT, Thomas E., Marine Master Sgt. (Ret.), 86, Nov. 10

St. Christopher Church, Columbus

RICE, Jane C. (Maher), 80, Nov. 19

Our Mother of Sorrows Chapel, Columbus

SCHMIDT, T. Gregory “Greg,” 89. Nov. 9

Church of the Resurrection, New Albany

THIEKEN, David Paul, 77, Oct. 15

St. Joseph Church, Plain City

ULRICH, Arthur N., 94, Nov. 17

St. Matthew Church, Gahanna

WILLIAMS, Imogene, 87, Nov. 8

St. Dominic Church, Columbus

WORSTALL, Mary Ann, 80, Nov. 16

St. Nicholas Church, Zanesville