A Mass of Christian Burial for Precious Blood Sister Mary Louise Voisard was celebrated Jan. 30 at Salem Heights in Dayton. Sister Mary Louise, 87, died Jan. 26 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Dayton. She had been a Sister of the Precious Blood for 72 years.

A native of Russia, Ohio, Sister Mary Lou entered her community on March 30, 1924. She enjoyed teaching grade school for 14 years in Missouri and Ohio; she also embraced the cloistered life for 21 years in New Riegel, Ohio. She later ministered for 20 years as a hospital chaplain/in pastoral care at the former Providence Hospital in Cincinnati and at Salem Heights and the Maria-Joseph Center in Dayton

Sister Mary Louise is survived by her sisters, Elfrieda Borchers, and Sisters Yvonne Voisard and Carmen Voisard. Interment was in the Salem Heights cemetery.