Sister Magdalen Kilbane, SHSp died on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 at her home, Convent of the Sisters of the Holy Spirit and Mary Immaculate. She was born on July 29, 1928 in Achill Island, County Mayo, Ireland and entered the congregation in 1947.

Her early years of ministry were spent in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. For thirty years, both as a teacher and an administrator, she shaped growing minds and emerging souls in Catholic Schools in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. In 1978, she began six years of pastoral ministry at St. Joseph's Church in downtown San Antonio. Her time there prepared her to make the faith leap into 26 years of pastoral ministry in Oaxaca, Mexico. Here she worked to shelter the homeless, to instruct the overlooked, to lift the lowly to self-sufficiency, and to bring good news to those who struggled. She invited many to help her in her ministry through their donations and was always grateful for their generosity.

Sister Magdalen had a fruitful Act One as an educator, a selfless Act Two as a missionary and a quiet Act Three in retirement. At the end of her list of ministry assignments, she quipped, "Here are my roots --- I hope the Father has the fruits."

Sister Magdalen is mourned by her sisters in community, her sister, Annie Graham, her brothers. Éamon and Thomas Kilbane, and by her nieces and nephews.

Because of the current circumstances surrounding COVID-19, a private prayer service and burial will be held. A Memorial Mass will take place at a later date. Donations in Sister Magdalen's memory can be made to the ministries of the Sisters of the Holy Spirit.