Rose Breen

Rose Marie Dean Breen, 92, of Indianapolis, passed away on Wednesday, November 3, 2010. She was born December 21, 1917; and was the daughter of Anna Jane (Morrissey) Dean and Ralph Owen Dean. Rose Marie attended Holy Cross grade school, and St. Agnes High School. She attended St. Mary of the Woods College and received her B. S. degree in Elementary Education from Butler University in 1962. She received a Masters degree in Education from Indiana University in 1972, and continued her education by taking post graduate non-degree studies at both Butler and IUPUI. Marie was a teacher in the Indianapolis Public School System for twenty-five years generally teaching junior high math. She taught at IPS schools 84, 66, 70, Cold Spring Middle School, and School 59, retiring in June, 1983. She was a member of Alpha Delta Kappa, and the Jonathan Jennings Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Marie was a devout Catholic and throughout her life she was a member of Holy Cross, Saint Joan of Arc and St. Luke the Evangelist Catholic parishes. She was married to Joseph C. Breen on June 17, 1939, and enjoyed sixty years of marriage until his death in February 2000. She is surv...[more]

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d by five children Rose Marie Traylor, Jane Ann Breen, Michael J. (Sally) Breen, Anne G. ?Trudy? Iles, and Joseph F. (Laurie) Breen, sister Anna C. Dillon; eight grandchildren W. Timothy (Jennifer) Kelsey, Elizabeth M. Kelsey, Franklin J. (Shannon) Kelsey, Jeffery (Marcia) Iles, Michelle Breen, Claire Breen, J. Kevin Breen, Michael J. Breen, five great grandchildren Thomas J. Kelsey, Angela M. Smith, Rachael A. Kelsey, W. Todd Kelsey and W. Nicholas Kelsey and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Joe, beloved uncle Michael F. Morrissey, sister Gertrude (Dean) Hunt, and brother Ralph O. Dean. Friends and family will gather on Sunday, November 7 from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the Leppert Mortuary, Nora Chapel. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at Saint Luke Catholic Church at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, November 8, with interment to follow at Our Lady of Peace Cemetery. Thanks are extended for the care that Rose Marie received at Sunrise Assisted Living and at Forum at the Crossing, as well as hospice caregivers from Community Hospice and Nightingale Home Healthcare. You are invited to visit the website www.leppertmortuary.com where you may share a personal memory of Rose Marie, sign the guest book.