ALTON — Sister Mary Magdalen Fearon, OSU, died Nov. 14 at the Ursulines’ Queen of Peace Health Care Center. She was 95 years old.

The daughter of Charles Walter and Rose McKay Fearon, she was born Anna Mae Fearon on July 24, 1918, in Chicago. She received a bachelor’s degree in history from The College of New Rochelle in New Rochelle, N.Y.; a master’s degree in history from DePaul University in Chicago; and a master’s degree in religion from Providence College in Providence, R.I. She entered the Ursuline Sisters in July 1941 and made her religious vows in January 1944.

Sister Mary Magdalen’s ministry was in the education of elementary and secondary school children as well as in adult education in Oak Park, Springfield and Decatur in Illinois; Arcadia, Arnold and Kirkwood in Missouri; Galveston, Texas; and Frontenac, Minn.

In the Springfield diocese, she taught at St. Aloysius and at Ursuline Academy of Springfield from 1948 to 1957, at Ursuline Academy of Springfield again from 1962 to 1963, and at St. Teresa High School in Decatur from 1983 to 1985. Her last assignment in the Springfield diocese was at Ss. Peter and Paul Parish in Collinsville from 1985 to 2005. She retired to Queen of Peace in 2006.

She is survived by three of her 10 siblings: Sister Nancy Fearon, OSU, Rosemary Ryan and Jeanette Forbes. She was preceded in death by her sisters Catherine Rose McGrath, Jane Elizabeth Flynn, Helen Veronica Simonis and Mildred Theresa Ronn; and her brothers Charles Robert Fearon, Howard A. Fearon and Walter John Fearon.

A memorial Mass was celebrated Nov. 26 at the Ursuline Convent chapel in Alton, with Father John Beveridge presiding.

 Memorial gifts may be made to Queen of Peace Health Care Center, 845 Danforth St., Alton, IL 62002.