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.
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