Submitted by: Mary Jo Koran

COLEMAN

Hautman

Tobin

SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE – October 23, 1999

Sally Coleman

July 5, 1941 -Oct. 21, 1999

Sally Coleman passed through death into eternal life on Thursday night at 11:10 p.m. in Hospice House of Saint Joseph County.

Sally was born in Falmouth, Ky., to Sarah Hautman and Raphael Patrick Coleman. She lived in Chicago, Ill., Dowagiac, Mich., and for the past eight years, in the South Bend area.

She lives on in her sons, Timothy Thomas Tobin of Jackson, Wyo., and William Murphy Tobin and Daniel Kevin Tobin, both of South Bend, as well as in her granddaughter, Abigail Blane Tobin. She is also survived by her sister, Mary Coleman of Ft. Mitchell, Ky., and her brothers, Patrick Coleman of Dayton, Ohio, and James Coleman of Erlanger, Ky.

To the many relationships of her life, Sally brought a creative spirit and a loving heart.

Sally was a 1963 graduate of Marquette University and received an MA in Counseling from Notre Dame in 1980. As a staff counselor at the University Counseling Center and a concurrent instructor in Notre Dame's Department of Psychology, she counseled students, authored seven books, and organized Notre Dame's Challenge 2000, a visionary response to the problem of addiction on college campuses. She was an esteemed colleague, mentor and friend.

A remembrance ceremony will be held on Sunday, Oct. 24, at 8 p.m. in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, where the funeral liturgy will take place at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 25. Burial will follow at Cedar Grove Cemetery.

Memorial donations may be given for the purchase of children's books to the Center for the Homeless.

McGann Funeral Homes, University Area Chapel, Edison at Ironwood, is in charge of arrangements.