The funeral Mass for Sister Jane Edward Schilling, CSJ, was celebrated Sept. 20 at the Nazareth Living Center Chapel. She died Sept. 13 at Nazareth. She was 86 and had been a Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet for 68 years.

Born Nancy Mary Schilling on Oct. 8, 1930 in Minocqua, Wis., she attended St. Joseph Academy in Green Bay for her last two years of high school. There, she met the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet and entered the community in 1948, taking the names of her siblings as her religious name.

She received a bachelor's in history and social studies from Fontbonne College in 1961, and a master's in ancient history from Loyola University in Chicago in 1961.

In the Archdiocese of St. Louis, she taught intermediate grades at St. Rita School (1951-58) and was a teacher and administrator at St. Matthew the Apostle Grade School in St. Louis (1958-1964). Then, she went to Indianapolis, spending the rest of her ministry there as a teacher and principal. In 1970, she helped found Martin Center, the college which became Martin University, named to honor Martin Luther King and St. Martin de Pores.

Since 2012, she had been in a ministry of prayer and presence at Nazareth. She is survived by three sisters, Fern Winger, Jane Jelinski, and Sister Mary Mark Schilling, and a brother, Edward.