Sister Mary Ellen
Parochial school teacher
Sister Mary Ellen Nolan, S.S.N.D., a teacher in Baltimore-area parochial schools, died Thursday of a heart attack at Villa Asumpta, the motherhouse of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, in Woodbrook. She was 93.
Sister Mary Ellen retired in 1975. Her area teaching assignments included St. Patrick, St. Andrew's School, St. Joseph Monastery, St. John Long Green, St. James and Our Lady of Good Counsel. She also taught in Brooklyn, N.Y., Rochester, N.Y., and Philadelphia.
Known for many years as Sister Mary Digna, the native of Oceanside, N.Y., entered the religious order of nuns in 1918.
A Mass of Christian burial was to be offered at 9 a.m. today at the Villa Asumpta chapel, 6401 N. Charles St., Woodbrook. There are no survivors.
John F. La Force
Vice principal
John F. La Force, retired vice principal of Elkridge Elementary School, died Thursday of cancer at his Woodlawn home. He was 74.
He retired in 1989 after 23 years in the Howard County school system.
A native of Lowell, Mass., he was a Navy medical corpsman during World War II and the Korean War.
A Mass of Christian burial was to be offered at 10 a.m. today at St. Charles Borromeo Roman Catholic Church, 101 Church Lane, Pikesville.
Survivors include his wife, the former Lois Jean Kelly; four sons, Robert La Force of Woodlawn, Charles Kelly of Eldersburg, Michael Roberts of Baltimore and Kelly Roberts of Glen Rock, Pa.; a daughter, Natalie Riebsam of Fayetteville, N.C.; and six grandchildren.
Olive Macey Finney
Former Towson resident
Olive Macey Finney, a former Towson resident, died Wednesday of congestive heart failure at Burnage, her home in Versailles, Ky. She was 83.
Services are set for Tuesday in Lexington, Ky.
Her husband, Humphrey S. Finney, who was founding editor in 1936 of the Maryland Horse magazine and who managed Holly Beach Farm, one of Maryland's largest horse breeding farms, died in 1984.
Survivors include two daughters, Marguerite Dance of Baltimore and Patricia F. Hansen of Charlotte, N.C.; a brother, Ralph W. Macey of Annapolis; a sister, Sue Strange of Chesapeake City; eight grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren.
Mary Catherine Hilles Zuber, 85, a former Baltimorean and volunteer, died Thursday of Parkinson's disease at her home in Montreal, Burgundy, France.
Services were set for today in Montreal. She is survived by her husband, Maurice Zuber; two sons, Jean Patton Zuber and William Zuber, both of Paris; two daughters, Countess Dominique de Gourcuff of Nerondes, France, and Isabelle de Linage of Paris; two sisters, D'Arcy Hilles Gordon Young of Baltimore and Elizabeth Hilles Graham of Santa Barbara, Calif.; 13 grandchildren; several great-grandchildren; and many nephews and nieces.