Sr. Teresa Rennell, IHM, 91, died Sept. 5 at the IHM Sisters’ Motherhouse and Health Care Center.

Sr. Rennell was born June 21, 1926, one of seven children to Ambrose and May (Sullivan) Rennell of Detroit. In 1945, she entered the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Monroe and received the religious name, Sr. Rita Mary.

Sr. Rennell completed her degree at Marygrove College and began a teaching ministry of 32 years in Michigan at St. John and St. Mary Academy, Monroe; St. Mary, Marshall; Holy Name, Birmingham; St. Regis, Bloomfield Hills; St. Timothy and St. Joseph, Trenton; and Gesu and Epiphany, Detroit. By 1968, she earned a master’s degree from the University of Detroit and moved into teaching at the secondary level at Wyandotte Catholic Consolidated School, Wyandotte, and St. Joseph School, East Tawas; and in Illinois.

After teaching, Sister Rennell coordinated religious education at St. John, Fenton, and Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Parish, Birmingham, among other ministries. While a resident of Taylor, Sr. Rennell offered her educational expertise as a tutor at Marygrove College. Sister Teresa lived in Chelsea for 10 years, actively engaging in prayer ministry. During this time, she wrote “What the World Needs Now - Insights and Observations of 18 Local Elders.”

A Remembering and Mass of Christian Burial took place Sept. 8 at the IHM Motherhouse. Burial will be at a later date.