(1927-2024)

Sister Margaret Mary Heinz, formerly known as Sister Richard Mary, died on Saturday, December 14, 2024, at the Dominican Life Center in Adrian. She was 97 years of age and in the 78th year of her religious profession in the Adrian Dominican Congregation.

Sister Margaret was born in Chicago to Anthony and Margaret (McBride) Heinz. She graduated from Aquinas High School in Chicago and received a bachelor’s degree in English from Siena Heights College (University) in Adrian and a master’s degree in English from the University of Detroit (Detroit-Mercy). She was also licensed in Clinical Pastoral Education at Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago.

Sister spent 22 years ministering in education in Grosse Pointe Farms and Iron Mountain, Michigan, and Wilmette and Chicago, Illinois, including six years as principal at SS. Mary and Joseph in Iron Mountain. She taught at two Congregation schools: Regina Dominican High School in Wilmette for five years, and Aquinas High School in Chicago for three years. She then served on the formation team in Adrian as pre-admissions director from 1969 to 1974. Sister was Director of Pastoral Care for 21 years at Ravenswood Hospital in Chicago. 

Sister Margaret became a resident of the Dominican Life Center in 1999. She was preceded in death by her parents and a brother, Richard Heinz. She is survived by a sister, Rita Heinz; other loving family members; and her Adrian Dominican Sisters.

Visitation will be from 6:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Monday, December 30, 2024, in the gathering space of St. Catherine Chapel. The Vigil Prayer will be at 7:00 p.m. Monday, December 30, 2024, in St. Catherine Chapel. A Funeral Mass will be offered in St. Catherine Chapel at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, December 31, 2024. Prayers of Committal will be held in the Congregation Cemetery. 

Those not attending the upcoming services in person are welcome to participate via live stream at https://adriandominicans.org/Live-Stream.

Memorial gifts may be made to Adrian Dominican Sisters, 1257 East Siena Heights Drive, Adrian, MI, 49221. Funeral arrangements are being handled by Anderson-Marry Funeral Home, Adrian.

 

LEFT: Baby Margaret Mary, 1927. MIDDLE LEFT: Margaret Mary with her brother Richard. MIDDLE RIGHT: School photo, Aquinas High School, Chicago, 1945. 

LEFT: Sisters enjoy fishing in 1957 at the summer home of a parishioner of St. Mary/Joseph Parish in Iron Mountain, Michigan. They are, from left, Sisters Joseph Bride McElligott, Paul Dolores, Richard Mary (Margaret Mary) Heinz, Marie Leon (Joan) Weitz, and Mary Alexander (Louise) Borgacz. MIDDLE: Margaret Mary plays a lead in an operetta performed at Aquinas High School, Chicago, 1942. RIGHT:  Sister Margaret Mary Heinz, Director of Pastoral Care at Ravenswood Hospital, Chicago, from 1976 to 1997, visits with a patient in 1978.

LEFT: Sisters Mary Carey, left, and Margaret Mary Heinz, 1992. MIDDLE: The Heinz family, from left: Rita, sister; parents Anthony and Margaret, and Margaret Mary, 1982. RIGHT: Members of the 1969-1974 Formation Team are, from left, Sisters Margaret Mary Heinz, Kathleen McGrail, Peg Albert, Mary Ellen Leciejewski, Rosemary Ferguson, Melba Beine, and Sarah Sharkey. 

Members of the 2015 Double-Diamond, June to December Crowd are: standing, from left, Sisters Anne L. Lindquist, Margaret Mary Heinz, Attracta Kelly (Prioress), Jeanne Marie O’Laughlin, and Therese Margaret Roberts; and seated, from left, Sisters Jane Quirk, Donna Wencel, Marcelline Fouchey, Madonna Marie Black, and Marie Sheila Beatty.

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