The Rev. Jane Heenan, 62, a longtime Alexandria resident who became the first woman to head an Episcopal church in Nebraska, died March 14 of congestive heart failure at her daughter’s home in Galveston, Tex.<\/p>\n
Before moving to Lincoln, Neb., in 1995, Rev. Heenan served as seminarian at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in Annandale and was ordained a priest at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Arlington County, where she served as assistant rector and interim rector.<\/p>\n
From 1995 to her retirement on disability in 2007, Rev. Heenan was the rector at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Lincoln. She also hosted numerous spiritual retreats for parishioners in Rehoboth Beach, Del., because she saw the ocean as the perfect background for spirituality, said her daughter, Sarah Gandy.<\/p>\n
Rev. Heenan’s last formal duty as a priest was officiating at her daughter’s marriage in a serene wooded Texas grove last May.<\/p>\n