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Sister Eileen Donahue, R.D.C., whose ministries included teaching, nursing and service to migrant farm workers, died Aug. 27 at White Plains Hospital. She was 87 and had lived at Good Counsel Convent in White Plains for about eight years.
Most recently she had provided health care for migrant farm workers and their families at the William Thayer Alamo Migrant Clinic in Goshen. Previously she had been director of the infirmary of the Sisters of the Divine Compassion and a staff nurse on the surgical floor at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla.
She taught at St. Frances de Chantal School in the Bronx for eight years, and spent 25 years teaching Latin, science and sociology at two high schools: Preston in the Bronx Our Lady of Good Counsel in White Plains.
Born in Waterbury, Conn., she entered the Sisters of the Divine Compassion in 1939 and professed final vows in 1947. She held a bachelor’s degree from Good Counsel College, a master’s degree in sociology from The Catholic University of America and an R.N. from Pace University. Previously she was known as Sister Mary Eulalia.
A Funeral Mass was celebrated Aug. 29 in the Chapel of the Divine Compassion, with burial at Mount Calvary Cemetery, both in White Plains.
