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Sister Catherine Marie O’Donnell, S.S.N.D., who was an elementary school principal and teacher in five states, died Nov. 24 at Lourdes Health Care Center in Wilton, Conn. She was 87.
In the archdiocese, she taught at St. Joseph’s School in the Yorkville section of Manhattan, 1961-1964.
She was a principal for more than two decades, first at a school in Leonia, N.J., and then in Meriden, Conn. She also taught in New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Georgia.
In 1991, she retired to Lourdes Health Care Center.
Born in Medford, Mass., she entered the School Sisters of Notre Dame in 1942 and made final vows in 1951.
She held a bachelor’s degree in education from what is now Notre Dame of Maryland University in Baltimore and earned a master’s in education from Boston College.
Sister Catherine Marie is survived by two sisters, Charlotte Reilly, and Sister Miriam Patrick O’Donnell, S.S.N.D., who resides at Lourdes Health Care Center.
A Funeral Mass was offered Nov. 27 in the chapel at Villa Notre Dame in Wilton, Conn. Burial was at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Bethel, Conn.
