Sr. Mary Ellen Glosser, IHM, died June 5. She was 92 and had been a member of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary for 76 years.

She was one of six children, three boys and three girls, of Andrew and Eleanor Glosser. She was born on May 2, 1919, in Canton, Ohio, and given the name Mary Ellen. She became a member of the IHM Sisters in Monroe in 1935, taking the religious name of Sr. Susellen.

Sr. Glosser earned a bachelor’s degree from Marygrove College and a  master’s degree from the University of Detroit. Her first 21 years as a teacher in formal education were at St. Louis, Mt. Clemens; St. Felicitas, Chicago; St. Rose, Holy Rosary and St. Agnes, Detroit; St. John, Jackson; Sacred Heart, Roseville and St. Mary Academy, Monroe. She taught at St. Mary Academy full-time for two years and served as part-time teacher and directress of resident students for seven years.

Sr. Glosser then became principal at St. Mary, Wayne; superior and coordinator at Marygrove Convent, Health Care supervisor at the IHM Motherhouse in Monroe, co-provincial of the IHM Southwest Province, and business manager at Marian High School in Birmingham. In 1982 Sister Mary Ellen returned to the Motherhouse in Monroe and served as switchboard operator and diet kitchen supervisor. She retired in 1988, and entered the Health Care Center in 2009. She was under the care of Mercy Memorial Hospice of Monroe prior to her death.

Sr. Glosser is survived by her sister Margaret Gouge, nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her brothers Arthur, Earl and Andrew and her sister, Sr. Dorothy Glosser, SSJ.

Her funeral Mass was June 8 at the IHM Motherhouse Chapel.

Memorials to the IHM Retirement Fund, 610 W. Elm Avenue, Monroe, 48162.