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.

March 25, 2011 A Mass for Sister of the Good Shepherd Rita Braun was celebrated March 15 at Good Shepherd Pelletier Hall in Ft. Thomas, Ky. Sister Rita, 87, died March 11.

March 25, 2011 A Mass of Christian Burial for Francis J. Conte, former dean of the University of Dayton School of Law, will be celebrated March 26 at Ascension Parish in Kettering. Conte, 68, died March 20.

March 15, 2011  A Mass of Christian Burial for Deacon Allen K. Miller will be celebrated March 19 at St. Peter Church in Huber Heights. Deacon Miller, 90, died March 14 at Mercy Siena in Dayton.

March 2, 2011 A Mass of Christian Burial for Sister of Charity of Cincinnati Anna Marie Lammert was celebrated Feb. 28 in the Immaculate Conception Chapel at the congregation’s Delhi Township motherhouse. Sister Anna Marie, 89, died Feb. 23 at Mother Margaret Hall. She was a Sister of Charity for …