Sr.Theodora McKennan, formerly known as Sr. Ellen Louise McKennan, died June 21 at the Dominican Life Center in Adrian. She was 82 and in her 60th year of religious profession in the Adrian Dominican Congregation.

Sr. McKennan was born in Chicago to Harold and Helen McKenan.

Sr. McKennan ministered in education for 24 years in Michigan, Iowa and Florida. In the Archdiocese of Detroit, she served at Presentation in Detroit (1951-52) and St. Mary in Rockwood (1955-56). She also spent several years at Siena Heights College in Adrian, and served recently for 12 years as librarian at St. Catherine of Siena Library in the order’s motherhouse in Adrian.

She became a resident of the Dominican Life Center in 2011.

She is survived by a sister, Mary Ellen Fromm of Bayside, Wisc.

Memorials to Adrian Dominican Sisters, 1257 East Siena Heights Drive, Adrian, 49221.