Dora M. Nolan, 103, Stevens Point, died Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015, at Ministry St. Michael’s Hospital in Stevens Point.

A Funeral Mass will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 4, at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Stevens Point, with the Rev. Dennis Stanchik officiating. Burial will be in Ironwood, Mich., in the spring.

Visitation will be at the church from 9 a.m. Monday until the Mass.

Pisarski Funeral Homes in Stevens Point and Plover assisted
with arrangements. Condolences may be offered online at
www.pisarskifuneralhome.com.

Mrs. Nolan was born Sept. 5, 1912, in Iron Belt, Wis., a
daughter of the late John and Pierina (DePra) Borca, the seventh of eight
children. She graduated from Iron Belt High School in 1930 and attended
business school in Milwaukee before returning to the Hurley area where she
worked for several years for Paul’s Store.

She was married to Theodore Nolan Aug. 12, 1940, in Saxon,
Wis. He died in 1992.

After the marriage they immediately left for South Bend, Ind.,
where they lived briefly until the beginning of World War II. They then
returned to northern Wisconsin and began to raise their family.

Because of her husband’s job, they moved throughout the
upper Midwest, living in Thief River Falls, Minn.; Bismarck, N.D.; Pence, Wis.;
and Stevens Point. In 1969, they moved to Marquette, Mich., until 1974, when
they retired and settled in Stevens Point.

She was an active member of the Catholic Church and a member
of the Catholic Daughters.

She was an artist who painted and did needlework and other
crafts.

She played golf until she was 89 years old and was a member
of the Wisconsin River Country Club Women’s League. She was also a bridge
player and a member of the Stevens Point Duplicate Bridge and Towne Bridge
Clubs. She was forced to give up playing bridge when she was 99 years old
because of macular degeneration.

Survivors include three sons, George (Joanne Milkey),
Plover, John (Kathleen Milkey), Mosinee, and Daniel, Denver, Colo.; one daughter,
Mary Ellen (Gerald) Pardun, Rhinelander; eight grandchildren; and 12
great-grandchildren.

She was also preceded in death by one son, Terry; three
brothers, Vincent Borca, Palmero Borca and Rudolph Borca; and four sisters,
Grace Zanella, Dorothy Brack, Bridget Nagro and Eleanor Umland.