Sister Mary Jane Kiley, CDP, 73, of McCandless Township died Monday.

Sister Mary Jane Kiley, formerly Mary Carmen, entered religious life at the age of 15 from the St. Kilian Parish in Mars. She was trained as an educator and taught in Pennsylvania in Carrick, Etna, West End, Glassport, Sharpsburg Beaver Falls, Glenshaw and Castle Shannon. She also was a principal at the St. Mary School in Herman, the St. Joseph Parish in Dover, Ohio, and in Detroit.

But she was, perhaps, proudest of her work as an addiction counselor, having herself suffered much with that disease. Many lives were touched and saved by her willingness to share her personal struggles as she led them toward their own healing.

Sister worked as addiction counselor at Liberty Center in Wooster, Ohio, at the Marion Area Counseling Center in Marion, Ohio, and at the Brighton Woods Treatment Center in Pittsburgh. While there, she was given the prestigious Linda Rosen Memorial Award in 1991 for her “outstanding direct care service provided to our patients.”

She was preceded in death by her parents, Mary Loretta (Brandt) and Edward Kiley.

Surviving are her brothers, Charles, Richard, Kenneth, David and Thomas; one sister, Dolores Marquart; loving nieces and nephews; and Sisters and associates throughout the world. Let it be said of her that no one who came to her for assistance was ever turned away.

<B>KILEY</B> — Friends of Sister Mary Jane Kiley, CDP, who died Monday, March 14, 2011, will be received today from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. with the wake service at 7 p.m. at Providence Heights Motherhouse. A funeral Mass will be Saturday at 11 a.m. in the Mother of Divine Providence Chapel.Memorials may be made to the Sisters of Divine Providence Ministry Fund, 9000 Babcock Blvd., Allison Park, PA 15101 or at www.divineprovidenceweb.org.Arrangements have been entrusted to <B>ANTHONY G. STAAB FUNERAL HOME</B>.