Miriam G. Devine, 95, a lifelong resident of Hamden and New Haven, Conn., died July 31 in her home after a lengthy illness.

She was a freelance writer after retiring and conducted interviews on the theme of faith and life for Today’s American Catholic, an independent periodical published in Farmington, Conn.

Devine leaves a sister, Jean.

The obituaries were written, at least in part, from published reports by Bulletin correspondent Nimra Aziz, an undergraduate student in the Northeastern University School of Journalism.