FALL RIVER, Mass. — Holy Union Sister Grace Donovan, also known as Sister Theresa Anna, who served her Congregation in many posts during 60 years of religious service, died April 9, 2009. Born in Fall River, the daughter of the late Cornelius and Mary Ellen (Grandfield) Donovan, she graduated from the former Sacred Hearts Academy and entered the Holy Union Sisters in 1938. She received a bachelor’s degree from Manhattan College in New York, and a master’s degree and a doctorate from Boston College. She did graduate studies at Oxford University in England and at the University of Paris in France. Sister Donovan’s educational assignments include principal of the former St. Mary’s School in Taunton, teacher of history at Boston College and Lowell State College, as dean of students at Regis College in Weston, and as a member of the campus ministry team at Stonehill College in Easton. She was provincial superior of the Fall River Province of the Holy Union Sisters from 1971 to 1974. Sister Donovan was also archivist for her Congregation in Rome as well as archivist for the newly formed U.S. Province. A member of the American Historical Society, the Society of American Archivists, and the New England Archivists of Religious Institutions, she was the author of “Beginnings, Holy Union Sisters in the United States” as well as “Holy Women on Holy Ground,” a history of the foundation of the Holy Union Sisters. Following her retirement in 2006, she continued to do research and write articles for the province newsletter. Besides her Holy Union Sisters, she leaves a sister, Helen Scholl of Somerset; nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews. She was the sister of the late John, William, Neil and Mary Walmsley. Her Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated April 14 in St. Mary’s Cathedral in Fall River. Burial was in St. Patrick’s Cemetery, also in Fall River.