Inna Nikolaevna Gould

Inna Nikolaevna Gould was born on Christmas Day, 1938 in St. Petersburg, Russia. She died on August 29, 2024 at Mount Carmel East Hospital, Columbus, Ohio. She lived since 2006 at 8593 Libra Rd, Dublin. The cause of her death was complications from cancer. Inna grew up in Russia, her infancy in the Far East, school years in Pinsk, Belorus, followed by college, residence and graduate training in St. Petersburg. She earned a Ph.D. in Communications Theory at the St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications and was employed as a Senior Research Scientist in a career ending in 1996 with twenty years research and teaching at her alma mater. In the early 1970’s, while doing research for the Soviet Navy, she earned patents for research and development of ship-to-shore phones, forerunner to the cell phone. Inna’s parents had great influence on her throughout her life. Her father was an officer in the Red Army and gave his life commanding a front-line battalion near Voronezh, south of Moscow, in November, 1942. Inna later earned official praise from the government for researching military details of this battle on its site. Her mother raised her family, which grew to include a son, three daughters and three grandchildren. Trained as a doctor with a love for mathematics, she worked as a nurse and invented a highly successful substitute for mother’s milk when it was unavailable. The strength and resolution of Inna’s character reflects the influence of both parents. After moving to the United States, she quickly earned citizenship, taught in public schools and earned full time employment at Columbus State Community College as an instructor in advanced mathematics from 2010 until her final illness. Whether teaching in Russia or America, Inna had the remarkable gift of conveying to her students not only information and understanding, but love itself. “She takes a special interest in each one of us,” was how one student put it. Indeed, Inna did not hesitate to discuss with her students their entire curriculum at the college and any personal subject they chose to include. These character traits of determination and depth in love were essential to her religious work in Russia. From 1991 to 2007, religious freedom was truly alive an religion could be openly practiced in Russia. For Inna in those years, being a Herald of the Gospel meant proclaiming in person and promoting by correspondence Catholic teaching, the Bible, and devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, especially by praying the Holy Rosary. In 1991 Inna and four friends organized the Russian Garabandal Center to tell throughout the vast territory of the former Soviet Union the story, as believed, of Our Lady's more than 2000 apparitions in Garabandal, Spain from 1961-65. Our Lady’s prophecy of the conversion of Russia at Fatima in 1917 and over subsequent years is known by many in Russia. At Garabandal, both Our Lady and Jesus Himself assured the young visionaries that Russia’s conversion would indeed take place, following the occurrence of a great miracle at Garabandal. Between 1992 and 2007, the Russian Garabandal Center organized five International Conferences devoted to Our Lady of Garabandal. The world’s leading experts came to Russia to share their knowledge and special graces obtained from Our Lady in this devotion. Inna worked personally, especially with priests, to master the detail and theology of these apparitions. In 2007 she conducted the last conference herself. Inna and William Gould were married in St. Petersburg in 1996 at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish. William had been working from the United States, then in Russia, to promote Garabandal. His mentor had been Fr. Walter Ciszek, an American Catholic Priest whose mission had been to serve in Russia. Fr. Ciszek is now a Candidate for Sainthood. In America, Inna became an active Catholic parishioner, first in Asbury, New Jersey and Rockville, Maryland, then in Dublin, Ohio. Her example of devotion to the Holy Eucharist and the Holy Rosary was admired by many and to some she offered intercessory prayer for their healing. In Inna’s spiritual life, devotion to the Holy Eucharist and to the Holy Rosary were perhaps imparted by the great teachings of St. Pope John Paul II. His efforts to reunite the Church guided her own spiritual course throughout Russia and over into America. Inna is survived by her husband William and son, Paul, two nephews Ivan with his wife Maria and granddaughter Simona; Anatoly and his wife Alina; also two stepsons George Conrad and Victor, with his wife Kirsten and grandson Leif Cyrus; also her brother Vadim Vasiliev, his daughter Svetlana and husband Victor, three grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Funeral Mass for repose of Inna’s soul will be celebrated at St. Peter St. Joan of Arc Parish, St. Joan of Arc Campus at 11:00 o’clock Wednesday morning, September 4, 2024. An hour of walk-in time will be available from 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Procession to Resurrection Cemetery will follow Holy Mass for Burial rite with final prayers. After the Burial, a Bereavement Meal will be offered at St. Joan of Arc Campus.

Inna Nikolaevna Gould

December 25, 1938 - August 29, 2024