Sinsinawa Dominican Sister Barbara (Walthier) Bell, 90, died Jan. 17 in Hazel Green, Wisconsin.

Born in Wisconsin, Sister Barbara made her first religious profession in 1951 and her perpetual profession in 1954. She was a teacher, director of religious education, bookkeeper and pastoral administrator in Minnesota, Indiana, South Dakota, Wisconsin, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Illinois and Montana.

In the Archdiocese of Chicago, Sister Barbara served as director of religious education at St. Thomas of Villanova, Palatine (1973-1975), and Visitation Parish (1975-1976), where she also taught in the school.

Father John J. Nicola, 92, died Jan. 3. He was the former assistant pastor of St. Cecilia Parish (Wells Street) and St. James Parish, Arlington Heights.

Born in Evanston, Father Nicola attended St. Thomas of Canterbury School, Quigley Preparatory Seminary and the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary before being ordained in 1955.

He also earned a doctorate in theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy.

Father Nicola was assistant pastor of St. James Parish and St. Cecilia and taught at Quigley Preparatory Seminary for 10 years before moving to the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., to serve as the assistant director of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. After that assignment, he taught at Georgetown Prep in Maryland and other Catholic high schools.

Deacon Timothy Donovan, 82, died Dec. 16, 2021, in Arizona. He was ordained in 1993 and served at Old St. Mary and Holy Rosary parishes.

Born in Chicago, he worked as an auditor for the federal government, according to his wife of 52 years, Noreen Donovan. Deacon Donovan loved to read and take walks near the couple’s retirement home in Arizona.

He entered diaconate formation when their children were in high school, and as a deacon, he especially liked doing marriage preparation for couples in which one of the partners was not Catholic.

“A couple of years later they’d be back for baptism preparation, and they would ask for him,” Noreen Donovan said.

Deacon Donovan is survived by his wife, his children Tim and Sharyn, and four grandchildren.

Deacon José Mendoza, 81, died Jan. 5 in Kentucky. He was ordained in 1995 and ministered at St. Agnes of Bohemia Parish for five years.

He moved first to the Diocese of Joliet before living in McAllen, Texas, and then Elizabeth, Kentucky.

He is survived by his wife, Grace Jasso Mendoza; his children Mark A. Mendoza, Jaime A. Mendoza and Georgiana T. Mendoza Bulanda; five grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; his sisters Carmen Mendoza, Martina Morales and Teresa Mendoza; and his brothers Amado Mendoza, Antonio Mendoza and Martin Mendoza.

Adrian Dominican Sister Lucy Ann (Florence Maurice) Quinn, 89, died Dec. 17, 2021.

Born in Detroit, she was in her 70th year of religious profession.

Sister Lucy Ann ministered in Illinois, Michigan and Ohio.

In the Archdiocese of Chicago, she taught at St. Clare of Montefalco.