Sister Eleanor Colgan, SNDdeN

Funeral Mass for Sister Eleanor Colgan, SNDdeN, 93, who died Friday, Aug. 11, was celebrated Wednesday, Aug. 16 at the Mount Notre Dame Chapel in Reading, Ohio. Burial was at the cemetery of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in Reading.

She was born on July 6, 1930 in Wichita, Kansas to the late Thomas and Eleanor (Focke) Colgan.

She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Our Lady of Cincinnati College in 1959 and a Master of Arts degree in English from Marquette University in Milwaukee in 1973.

She entered the congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur on July 26, 1947 and made her first profession of vows on Jan. 28, 1950, taking the name Sister Martin de Porres, and her final profession on Aug. 13, 1955.

She was a teacher in Columbus at Bishop Hartley High School (1960-66) and St. Joseph Academy (1976-1978). She also taught at schools in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and the Diocese of Steubenville and in Illinois and Arizona and taught adult learners from 1992 to 2011, when she retired to a ministry of prayer at the Mount Notre Dame Health Center in Reading.

BEIDER, Greg, 49, July 23

Basilica of St. Mary of the Assumption, Lancaster

BENDER, Sue C., 88, Aug. 5

Corpus Christi Church, Columbus 

BRISKI, Bernice M. (Biggs), 97, July 14

St. Timothy Church, Columbus 

BURDETT, Alice M. (Lauber), 94, Aug. 1

St. Leo the Great Oratory, Columbus

ELEKES, David F., 73, Aug. 9

St. Rose of Lima Church, New Lexington

FANCELLI, Jeannine (Bailey), 94, Aug. 15

St. James the Less Church, Columbus 

GORIUS, Daniel E., 85, July 21

St. Francis de Sales Church, Newark

HERR, Thomas, 76, Aug. 8

St. Leonard Church, Heath

HERBERT, Rita J. (Ryan), 97, Aug. 4

St. Catharine Church, Columbus 

HICKMAN, Leland Francis “Lee,” 86, Aug. 10

St. Francis de Sales Church, Newark

HINTERSCHIED, Donna M. (Tartal), 91, Aug. 8

St. Pius X Church, Reynoldsburg 

JERIC, Maria T., 26, Aug. 13

St. Brigid of Kildare Church, Dublin 

MALEY, Michelle Lee, 50, Aug. 2

St. John Church, Logan

MALONE, Mary S. (Hannum), 86, Aug. 10

St. Matthew Church, Gahanna

MILLER, Richard L., 92, Aug. 7

Our Lady of Victory Church, Columbus 

MONACO, Anna (Colarossi), 84, Aug. 2

St. Paul Church, Westerville

NEWTON, Lillie M. (Harris), 93, Aug. 16 

St. Mary, Mother of God Church, Columbus

REITELBACH, Diann (Auld), 91, Aug. 9

St. Agatha Church, Columbus 

RITCHEY, Barbara E. (Kessler), 88, Aug. 9

St. Joseph Cathedral, Columbus 

SCHIRTZINGER, David R., 59, July 30

St. Agatha Church, Columbus

SMITH, Francis M. (Butts), 92, Aug. 8

St. Peter Church, Millersburg 

THORNTON, Helen F. (McAdam), 93, Aug. 15

St. Brigid of Kildare Church, Dublin

TOLAND, Constance A., 75, July 26

St. Brendan Church, Hilliard