Father Michael S. Michelini, 78, died July 5. He was a retired priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago and former pastor of St. Adalbert Parish.

Father Michelini was born in Chicago and attended Quigley Preparatory Seminary and the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary before being ordained in 1971.

He served as assistant pastor of St. Aloysius and St. Agnes of Bohemia parishes. From 1981 to 2012, he served as pastor of St. Aloysius, St. Fidelis and then St. Adalbert. He retired in 2015.

Father Michael Furlan, a good friend of Father Michelini, said Father Michelini was a very charismatic and special person. Furlan recalled his charming presence and how “he really lived life and he would walk into a room and the place would just light up.”

“He was willing to go just about any place to help people, or minister to people,” said Father Mark Canavan, one of Father Michelini’s classmates.

Adrian Dominican Sister Jeanette (Anesa Mari) Jabour, 91, died May 24 in Adrian, Michigan.

Born in Detroit, she was in her 73rd year of religious life.

Sister Jeanette ministered in education and as an administrator of a home for the elderly, social worker and director of community relations in Illinois, Arizona, Ohio and Michigan.

In the Archdiocese of Chicago, she taught at St. Rita School (1951-1955).

Felician Sister Mary Kathleen (Claudette) La Plume, 84, died June 12 in Mother of Good Counsel Convent.

Born in Chicago, she attended St. Margaret Mary School and Mother of Good Counsel High School. She entered the Felician Sisters in 1956 and professed her final vows in 1964. She ministered in elementary schools as a teacher and librarian in Illinois. She also served as a pastoral minister and liturgist at St. John the Evangelist Parish, Streamwood, and in parishes in the Diocese of Joliet.

In the Archdiocese of Chicago, she ministered at St. Turibius (1959-1960); Our Lady of Ransom, Niles (1964-1968); St. Stanislaus, Posen (1968-1973); St. Linus, Oak Lawn (1974-1976); and St. Hubert, Hoffman Estates (1976-1985).

Sinsinawa Dominican Sister Mary (Mary Ania) Schlehuber, 95, died June 22 in Footville, Wisconsin.

Born in Peoria, Sister Mary made her first religious profession in 1948 and her perpetual profession in 1951. She was a teacher and chaplain who served in Illinois, Wisconsin and California.

In the Archdiocese of Chicago, Sister Mary taught at St. Jarlath (1952-1953); St. Vincent Ferrer, River Forest (1953-1957); St. Sabina, Chicago (1960-1967); and St. Louis de Montfort, Oak Lawn (1969-1973).

She is survived by a sister, Claire Reilly.

Conventual Franciscan Father Joseph William Bayne, Jr., 66, died June 23 in Chicago.

Father Joe, as he was known, was born in Baltimore and attended Archbishop Curley High School there before joining the Franciscan community in 1975. He professed simple vows in 1976 and solemn vows in 1981 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1985.

He served in parishes in Pennsylvania before beginning a 29-year ministry in Buffalo, New York, at the Franciscan Center, a transitional housing program for runaway and homeless young men from western New York. While there, he served for 13 years as Chaplain of Erie County Emergency Services and the Buffalo Fire Department.

In 2018, Father Joseph was assigned briefly to a parish in Massachusetts before becoming the associate director of formation at the Conventual Franciscans’ postulancy house in Chicago.

He is survived by his mother, Jean Bayne, and his brother, George Bayne.