Sister Mary Noella Kelly, R.S.M., an elementary school teacher in the archdiocese, died Jan. 29. She was 85.
She taught at Commander Shea School in East Harlem, 1943-1946 and 1950-1952, and at its sister school, St. Cecilia, 1952-1953, 1963-1970 and 1977-1985; and at Sacred Heart, the Bronx, 1946-1947, 1949-1950, 1961-1963 and 1970-1972.
She also taught at St. Michael’s, Staten Island, 1947-1948; St. Catherine of Genoa, Manhattan, 1955-1961; St. Margaret Mary, the Bronx, 1973-1974, and Transfiguration, Tarrytown, 1975-1977. From 1985 to 1995 she served her religious community.
Born in Manhattan, she entered the Sisters of Mercy in 1939 and professed final vows in 1945. She held a bachelor’s degree from Manhattan College.
A Funeral Mass was offered Feb. 1 at Marian Woods Chapel in Hartsdale, with burial in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne.