Sr. Helen Patrick Bartley, OP, formerly Mary Eileen Bartley, died March 12 at the Dominican Life Center in Adrian. She was 97 and in her 76th year in the Adrian Dominican Congregation.

Sr. Bartley was born in Chicago to Patrick J. and Helen (Walsh) Bartley. She received degrees in Latin from Siena Heights College (University) in Adrian and the University of Michigan.

Sr. Bartley spent 54 years ministering in education in Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and Florida. In Michigan, she taught at St. Mary High School (1943-44), Adrian, St. Dominic School (1940-43) and Dominican High School (1944-47), both in Detroit. She was principal at Blessed Sacrament School in Toledo, Ohio, for six years.

Sr. Bartley has no living family. A funeral Mass was offered March 15 in St. Catherine Chapel in Adrian. Rite of Committal was to be in the Congregation cemetery.