Sister Teresita Weind, SNDdeN
Funeral Mass for Sister Teresita Weind, SNDdeN, 81, who died Monday, April 28, was celebrated Saturday, May 11, at the Mount Notre Dame Health Center in Cincinnati. A second memorial Mass will take place in Columbus on a date to be determined.
She was born Helen Weind on July 6, 1942 to the late Lon and Lillian (Evans) Weind, was baptized at the Shiloh Baptist Church in Columbus and entered into full communion with the Catholic Church on Dec. 24, 1954 at Columbus St. Dominic Church.
She was a graduate of St. Dominic School, Columbus St. Joseph Academy and the St. Andrew Hospital School of Nursing in Bottineau, North Dakota. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from Mary College in Bismarck, North Dakota in 1969 and a Master of Religious Studies degree from Mundelein College in Chicago in 1972.
She entered the Sisters of Mary of the Presentation on Sept. 8, 1960 and made her first profession of vows on Aug. 26, 1963 and her final profession on Aug. 15, 1968. She transferred her vows to the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur on Feb. 9, 1973 and made her final commitment to the congregation on Aug. 13, 1976.
Her 63 years as a nurse, educator, pastoral minister and provincial leader took her to Chicago; Saginaw, Michigan; Cincinnati and ultimately to Rome, where she served as her congregation’s leader from 2008 to 2022 before returning to Cincinnati in retirement.
Marie M. Dawes
Funeral Mass for Marie M. Dawes, 86, who died Saturday, May 4, was celebrated Friday, May 10 at the New Albany Church of the Resurrection.
She was born on April 6, 1938 to the late William and Marie Gavin and was a graduate of Allentown (Pennsylvania) Central Catholic High School and St. Joseph College of Emmitsburg, Maryland.
She was a teacher at Allentown Central Catholic and, after raising her children, returned to the classroom and was an eighth-grade teacher at Columbus St. Cecilia School for many years.
At her parish, she was a member of the choir and an extraordinary minister of the Eucharist for the homebound. She also was a volunteer for the Pregnancy Decision Health Centers, the Women’s Care Center, the Christ Child Society, St. Cecilia School and Columbus Bishop Ready High School and was a member of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre.
Survivors include her husband of 62 years, Bob; sons, Bobby (Kelly) and Bill (Lisa); daughters, Mary Beth (Tim) Culbertson and Becky (Mike) Cummins; 11 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
ARMSTRONG, Frederick, L., 80, May 3
St. Joseph Cathedral, Columbus
CARNEVALE, Linda, 96, April 28
St. Timothy Church, Columbus
CLINE, Paul. E., 90, April 29
St. Francis de Sales Church, Newark
DURST, John G., 80, May 6
Church of the Atonement, Crooksville
FAROOKI, Dr. Filomena (Rasay) “Nena,” 93, May 4
St. Brigid of Kildare Church, Dublin
GARD, Carl O. “Bud” Jr., 65, May 1
St. Brendan Church, Hilliard
JIMENEZ, Olga P., 83, April 28
St. Michael Church, Worthington
LISSKA, Daniel A., 65, April 29
St. James the Less Church, Columbus
PERKO, Joseph G., 81, April 24
St. Joseph Cathedral, Columbus
RYAN, J. David, 20, April 20
Our Lady of Victory Church, Columbus
SNIDER, Judith A. (Paxton), 88, April 29
St. Rose of Lima Church, New Lexington
TIPPETT, James E., 75, April 27
Immaculate Conception Church, Columbus
VOISARD, Patricia (Hetzel), 83, May 6
Our Lady of Peace Church, Columbus
WAGNER, Walter D., 76, April 17
St. Peter Church, Columbus
WALDO, Francis X, 88, May 3
St. Mary Church, Marion
WRIGHT, Catherine F., 34, April 22
Our Lady of Victory Church, Columbus
