Sr. Aileen McClain, OP, formerly Elizabeth Rae McClain, died Sept. 24 at the Dominican Life Center in Adrian. She was 86 and in her 67th year in the Adrian Dominican Congregation.

Sr. McClain was born in Chicago to Vincent and Helen (Rache) McClain. She earned degrees from Barry College (University) in Miami and DePaul University in Chicago.

She ministered for 53 years in education in Michigan, Illinois and Florida, including at St. Brigid School in Detroit (1950-52).

Sr. McClain is survived by a brother, Vincent McClain of Lake Geneva, Wis., and a cousin, Adrian Dominican Sr. Mary Bernard Lynch. She was preceded in death by two sisters, Sr. Ellen Vincent McClain and Sr. Helen Thomas McClain, also Adrian Dominicans. A funeral Mass was offered Oct. 4 in St. Catherine Chapel in Adrian. Rite of Committal was to be in the Congregation cemetery.