Sister Mary Dee Smith, who entered the Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart in 1965 and served 30 years in education in the Archdiocese of Baltimores, died Jan. 27 in Philadelphia. She was 81.

Father Rochus Hoat Dinh Vu, a priest who served in his native Vietnam before coming to the Archdiocese of Baltimore, died Jan. 21 in Carthage, Mo. He was 86.

Sister Patricia McAlpin, who was attracted to the Franciscan Sisters of Baltimore by their ministry with African American orphans and served in several ministries in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, died Jan. 14.

Sister Hildegarde Grogan, a professed member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia for 64 years, whose ministry in health care and education brought her to the Archdiocese of Baltimore, died Jan. 20 in Assisi House in Aston, Pa.

Sister Lois Marie Blessing, a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur for 63 years who spent much of her teaching ministry in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, died Jan. 1 at the Hospice of Cincinnati.

Sister Marie Dolores Beck, a Sister of the Good Shepherd who ministered for decades at the Good Shepherd Center in Halethorpe, died Jan. 5. She was 85.

Hank Aaron, who was baseball’s home run king for 33 years, overcame racism to make his mark in the game he loved. Aaron died Jan. 22 at age 86.

Sulpician Father Joseph J. Bonadio, who shared his gift for homiletics with seminarians and served his home parish of St. Francis of Assisi in Mayfield, a retirement community and a college with great warmth, died Jan. 20 from complications of COVID-19.

Sister Catriona M. K. MacLeod, a Dominican Sister of Sinsinawa for more than six decades whose career in academia took her to Rome and what is now Notre Dame of Maryland University in Baltimore, died Dec. 19 at St. Dominic Villa in Hazel Green, Wis. She was 89.

Retired Maryland State Senator Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. – who had been the country’s longest-serving state senate president – died Jan. 15 at the age of 78 at his home in Chesapeake Beach from complications from prostate cancer.