Former Michigan Catholic editor Margaret Cronyn dies at 85

Published: 2004-04-22

DETROIT (CNS) -- Margaret Cronyn, former editor of The Michigan Catholic, newspaper of the Detroit Archdiocese, died April 16 at Lourdes Nursing Home in the Detroit suburb of Waterford Township. She was 85. A funeral Mass for Cronyn was celebrated April 21 at Our Lady of Refuge Church in Orchard Lake. Burial was in Holy Sepulcher Cemetery. She first began writing for The Michigan Catholic as the paper's family life columnist in 1949 when Cardinal Edward Mooney was archbishop of Detroit. She became a part-time staff writer in 1952, while keeping up her column, then became the paper's women's editor in 1960. In 1974 Cardinal John Dearden named her editor, a post she held until her retirement in 1988.

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