Sister Agnes Cecilia Kenna, C.S.J., a Sister of St. Joseph, Brentwood, L.I., for 77 years, died in Maria Regina Residence in Brentwood, on Nov. 14, 2015.
Sister Agnes Cecilia Kenna, C.S.J., a Sister of St. Joseph, Brentwood, L.I., for 77 years, died in Maria Regina Residence in Brentwood, on Nov. 14, 2015.
Bay Ridge community activist Larry Morrish, a founder of the Bay Ridge Volunteer Ambulance and the Bay Ridge St. Patrick’s Parade, died Feb. 8 at NYU Lutheran Medical Center.
Ana Ciorciari, mother of Deacon David Ciorciari, of St. Stanislaus Kostka parish, Maspeth, died Feb. 2.
A Mass of Christian Burial for Sister Georgia Brezler, D.C., was celebrated Jan. 23 at the DePaul House Chapel, Albany.
A Mass of Christian Burial for Father Felice J. DeLaura, a retired parochial vicar at St. Thomas Apostle Church, Woodhaven, was celebrated there on Friday, Feb. 5. He died Feb. 1. He was 78.
Nemesia Gonzalez, the mother of Deacon Louis Gonzalez of St. Thomas Aquinas, Brooklyn, died Jan. 21.
Joe Wood, a former staff member of the Diocesan Support Appeal Office, died Jan. 24. He was 75.
Retired Archbishop Francis B. Schulte, who served as the 12th archbishop of New Orleans, La., from 1988 to 2002, died Jan. 17 after several weeks in hospice care at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Darby, Pa. He was 89.
Father Donald F. Diederich, a retired priest of the Rockville Centre Diocese, L.I., died Jan. 15. For many years, he was a member of the faculty of Immaculate Conception Seminary, Huntington.
Sister Dolores Wisniewski, C.I.J., president of the Congregation of the Infant Jesus also known as the Nursing Sisters of the Sick Poor of Brooklyn, died on Jan. 14, following a battle against cancer for more than 20 years.