Mary Ellen Powers, former faculty assistant, died Monday, Sept. 13, 2004, after an illness. She was 79.
Powers spent the majority of her 31-year University career at the School of Law. She retired in 2000.
Powers was mother to 13 children, Ellen Powers, Ann Brune, Patrice Jones, Maureen Powers-Todt, Kathleen Muraski, Margaret Edwards, Thomas, Kevin, Tim, Michael, Jim, Robert and the late John Powers.
Among her other survivors are 22 grandchildren and her brother, Brian O’Neill.
A funeral Mass was held at St. Joseph Church in Clayton, and interment was at Calvery Cemetary.