Sr. Joan McGough

Dominican Sister of Peace, Sister Joan (Sr. John Marie) McGough died at Mohun Health Care Center, Columbus, OH on October 10, 2025. She was born in 1934 in Pittsburgh, PA and in 1959 entered the congregation of St. Mary of the Springs, now the Dominican Sisters of Peace. Sister Joan was a Registered Nurse at Braddock General Hospital before she entered the Dominican Sisters. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work from Ohio Dominican College (now Ohio Dominican University) and a Doctor of Podiatric Medicine from the Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine. She served in healing ministries as a nurse and as a podiatrist in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Ohio. She was preceded in death by her parents John and Mary Vesta Myers McGough, her sisters, Mary Catherine, Ellen Zollinger, Patricia Flodine and Sister Mary Vesta McGough, OP and her brother, John McGough, Jr. She is survived by her sister, Rosemary Holmes and nieces and nephews. A Vigil of Remembrance Service will be held at 4:45 PM on October 16, 2025 at the Dominican Sisters of Peace Motherhouse Chapel, Columbus, OH. The funeral liturgy will be held at the Dominican Sisters of Peace Motherhouse Chapel at 9:30AM on October 17, 2025 followed by burial at St. Joseph Cemetery by EGAN-RYAN FUNERAL HOME. Memorial gifts in Sr. Joan’s memory may be sent to the Dominican Sisters of Peace, Office of Mission  Advancement 2320 Airport Drive, Columbus, OH 43219, or submitted securely at oppeace.org.