Deacon Vincent Francis DeBiase, 86, a retired deacon of St. Margaret Church, Middle Village, died Sept. 20. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at St. Margaret Church, Sept. 24. He was 86. A veteran of the U.S. Army, who served in the First Infantry Division, 1946-49, he was ordained to the permanent diaconate 1985 […]
A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Sept. 16 at Good Shepherd Church, Marine Park, for Margaret Thomas, a member of the library staff at St. Edmund Prep, Sheepshead Bay.
Juan Santiago Walker, the brother of Father Carlos Walker, pastor of Guardian Angel parish, Brighton Beach, died Sept. 5 in Buenos Aires, where all funeral arrangements took place.
Sister Mary Margaret Duffy, O.P., a Sister of St. Dominic, Amityville, L.I., for 86 years, died Aug. 26. She was 102.
Sister Margaret Casey, R.S.M., 79, formerly Sister Mary Xavier, a Sister of Mercy for 61 years, died at Maria Regina Residence in Brentwood, L.I., Aug. 13.
Just two weeks shy of his 97th birthday, Josephite Father Joseph M. Calamari, the oldest living member of his order, died on Aug. 21 at St. Joseph Manor, Baltimore, Md.
Brother Cletus Burke, O.S.F., died Aug. 27. Born Daniel in Brooklyn, he entered the Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn while a student at St. Anthony’s Juniorate, Smithtown, L.I.
The retired primate of Hungary led the Catholic Church in Hungary as the country moved from communism to democracy at the end of the 1980s.
A Sister of Charity, Halifax, Nova Scotia, for 72 years, she was missioned at Our Lady of Angels, Bay Ridge, 1943-49, as a third-grade teacher.
Sister Alma Marie Van Buren, O.P., a member of the Sparkill Dominican Sisters, for 69 years, died Aug. 8 in Sparkill, N.Y. She was 90.
