May 10, 2011 A Mass of Christian Burial for Carmelite Sister Norah Michael McNamara was celebrated May 5 at St. Margaret Hall in Cincinnati. Sister Norah, 67, died May 1 after a long illness.

April 6, 2011 A Mass of Christian Burial for Franciscan Sister Joan Elise Smith was celebrated March 29 at the motherhouse chapel of the Sisters of St. Francis, Oldenburg, Ind. Sister Joan Elise, 83, died March 24 at Christ Hospital.

April 6, 2011 A Mass of Christian Burial for Sister of Mercy Eileen Marie Wallace was celebrated March 26 at St. Bernardine Home in Fremont. Sister Eileen Marie, 85, died March 23. She was a Sister of Mercy for 65 years.

April 6, 2011 MADISON, Wis. — Bishop William H. Bullock, the retired bishop of Madison who also had served as Bishop of Des Moines, Iowa, and Auxiliary Bishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis, died April 3, 10 days before his 84th birthday.

March 31, 2011 PEORIA, Ill.  —  Father John J. Dietzen, the foremost question-and-answer columnist in the Catholic press for 35 years, died March 27 at OSF St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria. He was 83.

March 31, 2011 NEW YORK — Bishop Patrick V. Ahern, 92, who served as an auxiliary bishop in the New York Archdiocese for nearly a quarter century, died March 19 at the Mary Manning Walsh Home in Manhattan.

March 31, 2011 A Mass of Christian Burial for Joseph Acito was celebrated March 28 at Holy Family Church in Price Hill. Acito, 66, died March 24 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati.

March 31, 2011 A Mass of Christian Burial for Sister of Notre Dame de Namur Rose Anna Vonderhaar was celebrated March 23 at Mount Notre Dame convent chapel in Cincinnati. Sister Rose Anna, 103, died March 18 at the Mount Notre Dame Health Center. She was a Sister of Notre …

March 31, 2011 A Mass of Christian Burial for Sister of Charity of Cincinnati Mary Mark Sullivan was celebrated March 29 in the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception at the congregation’s Delhi Township motherhouse. Sister Mary Mark, 100, died March 23 at Mother Margaret Hall. She was a Sister of …

March 25, 2011 A Mass of Christian Burial for Jesuit Father John “Jack” Beckman was celebrated March 15 at St. Robert Bellarmine Chapel on the campus of Xavier University. Father Beckman, 90, died March 11.