A Mass of Christian Burial was held for Father David Heinl, a priest of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, on Sept. 26 at St. Augustine Church in Minster. Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk presided.

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Father David Heinl

Born in Wapakoneta, Father Heinl attended grade school in Minster and continued his education at then-St. Gregory’s Seminary High School, Mount St. Mary’s Seminary and Xavier University. He was ordained on May 25, 1957 by Archbishop Karl J. Alter and celebrated his first Mass the following day at St. Augustine.

Through the years Father Heinl served as an associate pastor at St. Bernard in Springfield, St. Luke in Beavercreek and St. Anthony and Holy Angels parishes in Dayton. He went on to serve as pastor at St. Remy Church in Russia and Holy Rosary in St. Mary’s, from where he retired from priestly ministry after 15 years of service to the parish.

Father Heinl also taught math and served as vice-principal at Springfield Catholic Central High School, where he also coached golf; as vice-principal of Carroll High School in Dayton; and as a chaplain at Good Samaritan Hospital in Dayton.

He was a private pilot and enjoyed taking parishioners for plane rides.

Father Heinl is survived by his siblings Joan Heckman, Alice Kuehner, Barbara Meyer and Larry Heinl, all of Minster; and Charles Heinl of Maria Stein.

Sister Theresa Mitchell

A Mass of Christian Burial for Franciscan Sister Theresa Mitchell was held on Sept. 17 at the motherhouse chapel of the Sisters of St. Francis in Oldenburg, Ind. Sister Theresa, 60, died on Sept. 12 of cancer at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati.

A native of Cincinnati, Sister Theresa entered the Oldenburg Franciscans in 1966 and professed her final vows in 1974. Her educational ministry spanned 39 years, 24 of them spent at St. Veronica School in Mt. Carmel, where a Mass attended by some 900 people was held in her memory. Staff, students, school alumni and parents held prayer services when they learned of her illness, and St. Theresa’s Vikings for a Cure was organized in support of her for the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, which raises funds to help fight breast cancer.

Sister Theresa also taught at St. Bonaventure and Our Lady of Victory Schools, both in Cincinnati, as well as schools in Evansville and Indianapolis, Ind.

Sister Theresa is survived by her sisters, Molly French of Cincinnati, Bridget McDermott of West Chester, and Catherine Beck of Erlanger, Ky.; and her brothers Michael, Timothy, Charles, Francis, Brendan and Sean, all of Cincinnati.

Burial was in the motherhouse cemetery.