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MULHERN -- Jean (Bacigalupo) of Hopkins, MN, formerly of Albuquerque. Born 1924 in St. Paul MN to immigrant parents, Felice and Luigia Terrile Bacigalupo, she excelled in academics at College of St. Catherine (BA, magna cum laude, 1946) and University of New Mexico (MS, 1975). Jean was preceded in death by her devoted husband, John, who shared her love for learning, the Church and the Southwest. Jean first came to Albuquerque in 1945, on a summer break from college. She and John married in 1948, and raised seven children while he worked for the FBI in New York, Albuquerque and St. Paul. They retired to New Mexico in 1970, where John practiced law. Together they were active at Our Lady of Fatima, and were also members of the Irish-American Society and the Club Culturale Italiano. She loved to garden and cultivated roses and perennials wherever she lived. Jean stayed intellectually active throughout her life, taking classes in Italian, Gaelic, and German, pursuing studies in literature, theology, and art, and developing her talent for drawing. She traveled several times to Italy and Ireland, where she forged connections with her cousins and those of her Irish-American husband. In 1998 after John's death, she returned to Minnesota to be with her family. Jean is survived by her oldest sister, Evelyn, 98, and by her children, Brian (David Wood) of Minneapolis MN, Mary Jean Mulherin of Edina MN, Terence (Linda) of Minnetonka MN, John (Rebecca Schatz) of Lauderdale MN, Ann (Brian) Shields of Bloomington MN, Patricia (Tim) McClanahan of Vancouver WA, and Tom (Kim Erwin) of Evanston IL. She is also survived by 17 grandchildren, Jahan, Dan, Andy, Peter, John Paul, Tony, Mollie, Sarah, Maggie, Jonathan, Jeb, Katie, Hannah, Karl, Josiah, Joey and Dakota; and six great-grandchildren, Marisa, Hunter, Alex, Anastasia, Elizabeth and Micah. Visitation on Sunday, February 10, 2008 from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. at Salazar & Sons Mortuary, 400 Third. St. SW, Albuquerque. Mass of Christian Burial on Monday, February 11 at 10:00 a.m. at St. Anne's Catholic Church, Santa Fe, with internment at Santa Fe National Cemetery at 11:00 a.m. Arrangements by: Salazar & Sons Mortuary 400 Third St. SW 247-4124
        Published on: Sun February 10, 2008