May 18, 2011 A Mass of Christian Burial for Sister of Mercy Mary George Boklage was celebrated May 16 at St. Clare Church in College Hill. Sister Mary George, 87, died May 12. She was a member of the Sisters of Mercy for 70 years. 

May 10, 2011 Comboni Missionary Father Valentino Saoncella, 91, died April 19 at the Comboni Mission House in Milan, Italy, where he had been in retirement for the past few years. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated in Our Lady of Fatima Chapel at the Comboni Mission House.

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 …