Sister Clare Marie O’Keeffe, O.P., formerly Sister Maureen Daniel, a member of the Sisters of St. Dominic, Amityville, for 60 years, died Dec. 5. She was 81.
She entered the congregation from St. Matthias, Ridgewood, in 1952 and received the habit and her religious name the following year. She pronounced religious vows on Aug. 7, 1954. 

She earned degrees in management from St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights; theology from Manhattan College, Manhattan; and counseling/mental health from Long Island University’s C.W. Post.
From 1954 to 1962, she taught at Corpus Christi, Mineola, L.I.; Blessed Virgin Mary Help of Christians, Woodside; St. Nicholas, Williamsburg; and St. Patrick, Bay Ridge.
She devoted the next 45 years of her life to St. Patrick parish, Huntington, L.I., where she taught in the school, 1967-69, and then served as religious education director, 1969-96. She continued to minister in parish services from 1996 to the present. She worked with the senior citizens group, taught adult education, was an alcoholism counselor, a member of the board of directors of Melville House for Boys, the Huntington Town Consumer Protection Board and the board of the Huntington Community School. 
In 1990, she was honored as Grand Marshal of the Huntington St. Patrick’s Parade, becoming the first religious sister and the second female in the parade’s 58-year history.
A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Dec. 11. Interment followed in the Sisters’ Cemetery, Amityville.