WATCHUNG Jeanne Eleanor Maguire, 87, died Wednesday, Feb. 28, at Overlook Hospital, Summit.
Born in Phillipsburg and raised in Trenton, she graduated from Cathedral High School in 1930 and joined the Sisters of Mercy, where she was known as Sister Mary Casimir.
She received a bachelor’s degree from Georgian Court College, Lakewood, and a master’s degree from Catholic University, Washington, D.C. She studied at Temple and Villanova universities, the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Science, the University of Denver, the C.B.A. Institute at Brown University, the University of California at Berkeley and Cornell University, where she had a Shell Merit Fellowship.
She conducted cancer research at Institutum Divi Thomae, Cincinnati, and worked on the radiation project at the University of Notre Dame.
She taught at Camden Catholic High School and Georgian Court College during summer sessions. She received the Princeton Prize for Secondary School Teaching in 1961.
After leaving the Sisters of Mercy, she taught at Windham High School, Willimantic, Conn., and part time at Eastern Connecticut State College. She was initiated into the Delta Kappa Gamma Society of Connecticut in 1973.
She had worked with Educational Testing Service, where she was a reader for advanced placement chemistry tests and member of the evaluation group for achievement tests in chemistry and the writing committee for the NSTA-ACS chemistry test.
After retiring, she moved back to New Jersey, living in Barrington and working with Edmund Scientific. She moved to Lawrenceville in 1997 and McAuley Hall in Watchung last year.
Daughter of the late Michael S. and Marion E. Connell Maguire and sister of the late Thomas and Helen Maguire, she is survived by cousins, including Sister Mary Ancilla of Princeton; and friends.
Burial was private.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Sisters of Mercy, McAuley Hall, 1633 Route 22 West, Watchung, N.J. 07060.
Arrangements were by the M. William Murphy Funeral Home, Trenton.
