Sister Anne Brendan Delaney, C.S.J., a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Brentwood, L.I., for 72 years, died March 11. She entered the congregation from Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Sunset Park. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Italian from Manhattan College in 1955 and earned college credits in sacred science at St. Bonaventure […]
Victor Gainor, a board member of the Xavier Society for the Blind and recipient of the 2014 Xavier Award, died March 22. He was 79. Born and raised in Manhattan, he graduated from Sacred Heart H.S. and attended Iona College before becoming a United States Marine. A successful career in financial services allowed time for […]
Sister Damian Marie McKeever, S.C., (Mary Agnes), a Sister of Charity of New York for 69 years, died March 1 at the Convent of Mary the Queen. She was 86. Born in Manhattan, she attended Sacred Heart School and Cathedral H.S. before entering the Sisters of Charity of New York in 1946. She attended the […]
Sister Margaret Griffin, S.C. (Sister Leo Stanislaus) died on March 13, at Mount St. Vincent, Wellesley Hills, Mass., at the age of 99. A Sister of Charity (Halifax) for 80 years, she was missioned at St. Sylvester School in City Line, 1947-53 as an eighth-grade teacher. She also ministered at Our Lady of Good Counsel, […]
Sister Margaret Wenzel, O.P., a Sister of St. Dominic, Amityville, for 76 years, died Feb. 27. She was 96. Born in Brooklyn, she was raised in St. Martin of Tours parish in Bushwick. After attending the Dominican Sisters’ H.S. Juniorate, she entered the congregation on Sept. 8, 1938. She pronounced her vows on Aug. 17, […]
Sister Marie Stein, R.S.M., a Sister of Mercy of the Americas Mid-Atlantic Community for 72 years, died March 14. Born in Brooklyn, she attended St. Brigid School, Bushwick, and Mercy Juniorate H.S., Fort Greene. She received her bachelor’s degree in education from St. John’s University, Jamaica, and a master’s in history from Seton Hall University, South Orange, N.J. […]
Sister Maria Klosterman, S.F.P., a Franciscan Sister of the Poor for 57 years, died in St. Clare Convent Chapel in Cincinnati, Ohio, March 9. She was 75. A native of Celina, Ohio, she served locally as a pastoral associate at Assumption parish, Brooklyn Heights. Other assignments included serving the poor as a nurse at Catholic […]
Sister Clare Louise Melzer, O.P., a Sister of St. Dominic, Amityville, for 81 years, died Feb. 27. She would have turned 98 on March 26. Born in Brooklyn as Marie Louise Melzer, she was raised in Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal in Ridgewood. She went on to graduate from the Dominican Sisters’ H.S. Juniorate, […]
Brother Emmett Corry, O.S.F., who wrote the history of the Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn, died Feb. 25 at Lutheran Augustana Center, Sunset Park. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated March 2, at Our Lady of Angels Church, Bay Ridge. The son of Irish immigrant parents, Patrick J. Corry graduated from St. Francis de Sales […]
Deacon Louis Guastella, who was ordained for the Diocese of Brooklyn but served most recently in the Diocese of Las Vegas, Nev., died Feb. 21 in Las Vegas. He was ordained as a deacon in March of 1984 and served in Our Lady of Miracles in Canarsie, and at St. Catherine of Genoa, Flatbush. In […]
