Sinsinawa Dominican Sister Mary Margaret “Penny” (Marie Albert) Smith, 86, died May 22, in Hazel Green, Wisconsin.

Born in Chicago, Sister Penny made her first profession in 1961 and her perpetual profession in 1966. She graduated from Rosary College (now Dominican University) in River Forest with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and received her master’s in religious studies from Providence College in Rhode Island.

She taught high school in Milwaukee and in Freeport, Illinois, and was director of religious education at St. Thomas of Villanova Parish, Palatine. She also ministered in Alabama.