Sister Bede Donelan was the co-author of Their Country’s Pride; an Anthology of Rural Life Literature, and numerous articles in professional publications. She was a respected lecturer on the classics, traveled extensively in Europe and did research in Rome and Greece. She served as president of the Minnesota Classical Conference, first vice-president and member of the board of the Classical Association of the Midwest and South (CAMWS), chairman of the Minnesota State Committee on Latin Teacher Training and chairman of the National Committee for the Recruitment of Latin Teachers. She was one of fifty scholars chosen to attend a planning conference for the classics in Washington, D.C. in 1965. She was appointed national coordinator of the Minnesota Latin consultants. She was the Classical Association of the Midwest and South honoree in 1968.

    In 1968, Sister Bede celebrated 50 years as a nun. She continued to teach part-time at St. Teresa’s almost until her death on January 17, 1973. Sister Bede was survived by four sisters, Margaret (Mrs. Arnold Dahl), and Kathryn (Mrs. John Cronin) of Rochester, Gertrude (Mrs. John Eustice) of Waseca, and Ann (Mrs. Andrew Eustice) of Faribault and a brother Thomas Donelan of Janesville.

     A Mass of Christian Burial was offered on Friday January xx in the Assisi Heights Chapel in Rochester. Burial took place in Calvary Cemetery, Rochester, Minnesota.