Sr. Donna Mary Hart, IHM, 95, died Oct. 6 in the IHM Health Care Center, Monroe.

One of nine children of William and Jennie (Smith) Hart, Eleanor was born May 30, 1922. She entered the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in Monroe in 1945.

Sr. Hart earned degrees from Marygrove College and Villanova University. During her ministry, she taught at St. Mary Academy and Detroit high schools, St. Francis de Sales and Immaculata in Detroit, St. Thomas High School, Ann Arbor; and Our Lady Star of the Sea, Grosse Pointe Woods, where she also served as principal.

She later served as provincial of the Northeast Province, in adult religious education, and she completed a second master’s degree in pastoral studies (Loyola University, Chicago). She engaged the people of St. Martin de Porres, Warren; Church of the Holy Spirit, Hamburg; St. Mary Parish, Milford, and Prince of Peace Parish, West Bloomfield.  She also served in the IHM Motherhouse Resident Community, helped coordinate the community’s Theological Education Project, and as part of the IHM Pastoral Care Department.

Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Oct. 11 at the IHM Motherhouse in Monroe. Burial will follow at a later date.