Sr. Suzanne Fleming, IHM, 89, died Aug. 27 in the IHM Health Care Center in Monroe.

Born in Detroit on Feb. 4, 1927, Suzanne Marie Fleming was one of two daughters of Albert and Rose (Smiley) Fleming. She was baptized at St. Brigid Church, Detroit, and graduated from St. Mary of Redford. She entered the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Monroe in 1945.

In 1948, Sr. Fleming began more than 45 years ministering in education and administration at Annunciation and Gesu, Detroit; St. John and St. Mary Academy, Monroe; St. Thomas, Ann Arbor; Marygrove College, Detroit; Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti; Western Illinois University, Macomb, Ill.; University of Wisconsin, Eau Clair, Wis.; and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. For another 20 years, she resided in Ann Arbor as a visiting scholar and researcher at U of M.

Sr. Fleming earned degrees from Marygrove College and the University of Michigan and co-authored and published several publications in chemistry studies and research, and assisted in editing Building Sisterhood: A Feminist History of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Sr. Fleming was preceded in death by her parents and sister, Patricia Donaldson. She is survived by several nephews and a niece; 11 grand-nephews and nieces; and 10 great grand-nephews and nieces. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Aug. 31, with interment at a later date.