Sister Mauryeen O’Brien, OP
Funeral Mass for Sister Mauryeen O’Brien, OP, 92, who died Tuesday, Aug. 22, was celebrated Wednesday, Sept. 6 at the Motherhouse of the Dominican Sisters of Peace. Burial was at St. Joseph Cemetery, Columbus.
She was born on Dec. 23, 1930, in Flushing, New York to Leo and Aline (Kehoe) O’Brien.
She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in education in 1960 from St. Mary of the Springs College (now Ohio Dominican University) and a Master of Arts degree in English in 1966 from the University of Notre Dame.
She entered the congregation of the Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Springs (now the Dominican Sisters of Peace) in 1949 and professed her vows on July 9, 1951.
In the Diocese of Columbus, she was a teacher at Coshocton Sacred Heart School (1954-1955), a teacher and principal at Columbus St. Gabriel School (1961-1965), an administrator at Columbus Our Lady of Peace School (1979-1985) and apostolic works promoter at the St. Mary of the Springs Convent in Columbus (1974-1979).
She also taught or was principal at schools in Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania and the Diocese of Steubenville.
From 1987 until her retirement in 2020, she served in the Archdiocese of Hartford, Connecticut in divorce and bereavement ministries and as a retreat director. She retired to a life of prayer and service in the Motherhouse in 2020 and became a resident of the Mohun Health Care Center earlier this year.
She was preceded in death by her parents, and brothers Father Eugene O’Brien, SJ, and Brian.
BEITER, Gregory, 49, July 23
Basilica of St. Mary of the Assumption, Lancaster
BLACKWELL, Bonnie L. (Bates), 100, Aug. 11
St. Joseph Church, Plain City
BURTON, Margaret “Peggy” (Creasap), 82, Aug. 16
Our Mother of Sorrows Chapel, Columbus
BUTLER, Georgann (Porras), 84, Aug. 20
St. Joseph Church, Circleville
CAMPBELL, Gregory, 75, Aug. 19
Our Lady of Peace Church, Columbus
DORSEY, Michael, 80, Aug. 14
Sacred Heart Church, New Philadelphia
ECKARDT, Robert C., 89, Aug. 9
St. Leo the Great Oratory, Columbus
FINNERAN, Rosemary C. (Crumley), 87, Aug. 17
St. Brendan Church, Hilliard
FLOM, Mary J. (Johnson), 89, Aug. 23
Sacred Heart Church, Columbus
GRIMES, Marie E. (Newlon), 79, Aug. 14
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Grove City
HOTHEM, James M., 73, Aug. 12
Sacred Heart Church, New Philadelphia
IGEL, Jeanie, 88, Aug. 13
St. Brendan Church, Hilliard
KAGOAN, Deborah L. (Anderson), 76, Aug. 26
Sacred Heart Church, New Philadelphia
KEEFE, Thomas M., 89, Aug. 17
St. Paul Church, Westerville
LANG, Karen Rose, 82, Aug. 18
St. Nicholas Church, Zanesville
LEUKART, Thomas J., 87, Aug. 20
Church of the Resurrection, New Albany
LIEGL, Alberta “Birdie” (Goetz), 99, Aug. 15
St. Joseph Church, Dover
LORENZ, Linda, 74, Aug. 16
Sacred Heart Church, Coshocton
METZGER, Patricia (Gaudreau), 82, Aug. 14
Sacred Heart Church, New Philadelphia
MILANO, Angela (Ciotola), 85, Aug. 24
Our Lady of Victory Church, Columbus
MORAN, Jane M. (Schweiterman), 64, of Grandview Heights, Aug. 17
St. Henry Church, St. Henry
NEUDER, Jill R., 76, Aug. 28
St. Colman of Cloyne Church, Washington Court House
PEQUIGNOT, Matthew J., 54, Aug. 11
St. Paul Church, Westerville
PODERIS, Kastytis, 86, Aug. 29
St. John Neumann Church, Sunbury
POPLIS, Paul S., 78, Aug. 12
St. Pius X Church, Reynoldsburg
RAKO, Daniel P.,80, Aug. 25
Church of the Resurrection, New Albany
RAUCH, Linda R., 67, Aug. 24
St. Francis de Sales Church, Newark
RICHCREEK, Ellsworth, 85, Aug. 21
Sacred Heart Church, Coshocton
SCHOPFER, Petronilla “Pat” (Smith), 96, Aug. 23
Ss. Peter and Paul Church, Glenmont
STALICA, Norbert R., 88, Aug. 21
St. Pius X Church, Reynoldsburg
STURTZ, Betty, 80, Aug. 15
Sacred Heart Church, Coshocton
TUTHILL, Mary L. (Bauman), 65, Aug. 17
St. Leo the Great Oratory, Columbus