Sister Mary Colgan's obituary, Adrian, Lenawee County, Michigan

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SUBJECT: Obit for Sister MAry Rosalia Colgan
SUBMITTER: Diane Oslund
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DATE: Nov 28, 2000
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SURNAMES: COLGAN
From the Lenawee County Historical Society Museum Archives Obit files,
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Colgan:

>From Daily Telegram, Monday Jan. 15, 1990

Sister Colgan

Adrian - - Sister Mary Rosalia Colgan, O.P., the former Rosalia Eugenia
Colgan, died Friday, Jan. 12, 1990, at Bixby Medical Center, Adrian.
She was 88 years of age and in the 59th year of religious profession
in the Adrian Dominican Congregation.

Sister Rosalia was born in Atchison, Kan. To John and Johanna (Curtain)
Colgan. She attended Atchinson Business College and received a Bachelor
of Philosophy degree from Siena Heights College in Adrian.

Sister Rosalia spent 43 years ministering in elementary and secondary
education including many years at St. Kilian in Chicago. Ill. and
St. James in Maywood, Ill. She was principal of St. Ann School in
Tucumcari, N.M., and later taught high school at Holy Cross in Santa
Cruz, Calif., St. Theresa in Detroit, and Rosary in Detroit. In 1982,
she etired to Maria Health Care Center in Adrian.

Sister Colgan is survived by several grandnieces in Atchison.

A Mass of Christian Burial was offered at 10:30 a.m. today in Maria
Chapel. Burial was in the Congregation Cemetery.

Funeral arrangements were handled by Anderson Funeral Home, Adrian.