Sister Maureen Fenlon, OP

April 15, 2019
 
Sister Maureen Fenlon, formerly known as Sister Shaun Paul, died March 27 at the Dominican Life Center in Adrian, Michigan. She was 75 old and in the 60th year of her religious profession in the Adrian Dominican congregation.
 
Sister Maureen was, to James and Noel (Finlan) Fenlon. She graduated from St. Joseph Academy in Adrian, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from Siena Heights College (University) in Adrian and a Master of Social Work degree from Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida.
 
Michigan-born Sister Maureen spent 10 years ministering in elementary education in Illinois and 19 years in ministry in the San Francisco Bay Area as a farm apprentice and farm and community worker.
 
She was executive director for Centerforce, an organization that provides services for prisoners and their families, served as a congressional staff member and was interim national coordinator for NETWORK in Washington, D.C. She developed many visitor centers for families of prisoners, created Lydia, a women’s coop program interchange, and ministered as national coordinator for the Dead Man Walking School Theatre Project with Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ.
 
Services were April 3 in the sisters’ St. Catherine Chapel, followed by committal in the congregation cemetery. Memorial gifts may be made to Adrian Dominican Sisters, 1257 East Siena Heights Drive, Adrian, Mich. 49221.