Funeral services planned for slain nun

Funeral and memorial services for Sister Margaret Held, one of two nuns found stabbed to death in Mississippi last week, will take place in Wisconsin this week.

Held, 68, who was with the School Sisters of St. Francis in Milwaukee, and Sister Paula Merrill, of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in Kentucky, were found dead at their home in Durant on Thursday. Held grew up in Slinger, where she attended St. Peter's Catholic School, said her cousin Irene Wolf. She was a teacher at St. Joseph’s High School in Kenosha in the 1970s before heading south.

A visitation will take place at St. Joseph Center, 1501 S. Layton Blvd., Milwaukee, at 8:30 a.m. Friday. The visitation will be followed by a wake service at 9:30 a.m. and Mass of Christian burial at 11 a.m. with Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki. A committal will also be held at Mount Olivet Cemetery, 3801 W. Morgan Ave., Milwaukee, at 2:30 p.m. Friday.

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Other Wisconsin memorial services for Sister Margaret include a Mass at the St. Joseph Catholic Academy Lower Campus at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, in St. Mark the Evangelist Church at 7117 14th Ave., Kenosha, and a visitation with Held's family at Resurrection Church, 215 Main St., Allenton, from 4 to 5:45 p.m. Thursday, followed by a memorial Mass at 6 p.m.

Memorials in Sister Margaret’s honor can be made to the School Sisters of St. Francis, 1515 S. Layton Blvd., Milwaukee.

Rodney Earl Sanders, 46, of Kosciusko, Miss., has confessed to the killings but gave no reason, said Holmes County Sheriff Willie March. Sanders had been living about 15 miles east of the sisters’ Durant home. He has been held at an undisclosed jail since his arrest late Friday.