Sr. Margaret Dowd, IHM, 84, died May 28 at ProMedica Monroe Regional Hospital, Monroe.

Born Nov. 27, 1932, in Port Huron, she was one of 11 children of John M. and Mary A. (Kennedy) Dowd. In 1950, she entered the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Sr. Dowd earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Marygrove College in Detroit. She ministered in education, including at St. Hugo of the Hills, Bloomfield Hills; Christ the King, St. Martin and St. Rose, Detroit. From 1966 to 2013, Sr. Dowd’s ministries remained in Port Huron: as a teacher at St. Stephen High School and as a campus minister at St. Clair County Community College and the John Courtney Newman Center. In 1991, she became co-director of the Newman Center until 2004. She then spent several years as co-director of campus ministry for the Archdiocese of Detroit.

Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated June 1 at the IHM Motherhouse in Monroe. Cremation and burial were to follow.