Sister Miriam Patrick O’Donnell, S.S.N.D., who taught school for nearly five decades, including 30 years at one Brooklyn high school, died Jan. 15 at Lourdes Health Care Center in Wilton, Conn. She was 83 and had been a professed member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame for 62 years. Born as Eleanor J. O’Donnell, […]
Author, editor and longtime columnist for Catholic News Service Monica Dodds died Jan. 6 at her home in Mountlake Terrace, Wash. She was 60 and had battled uterine cancer for nearly three years. With her husband of 38 years, Bill, she had been a columnist for CNS since 1991, focused on family issues such as […]
Sister Mary Elizabeth Hurney, S.C., 90, a Sister of Charity, Halifax, for 69 years, died Jan. 3 at Mt. St. Vincent, Wellesley Hills, Mass. Formerly known as Sister William Marie, she taught third, sixth and seventh grades at St. Sylvester School, City Line, 1943-54. She also ministered in Staten Island, Massachusetts and Canada. She retired […]
Brother Francis Regis Newbeck, F.M.S., a member of the Marist Brothers of the Schools for 60 years, died Dec. 20, 2012, at Jamaica Hospital. He was 78. He entered the Marist Brothers Novitiate at Tyngsboro, Mass., in 1953. He professed first vows in 1954. After completing his religious and academic studies at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, […]
A Mass of Christian Burial for Msgr. Thomas F. Noonan, the retired pastor of St. Edmund’s parish, Sheepshead Bay, was celebrated Saturday, Jan. 5 at the church. He died Dec. 31, 2012 at the Ross Center for Health and Rehabilitation, Brentwood, L.I. Born in New London, Conn., Msgr. Noonan attended Cathedral College, Brooklyn, and Immaculate […]
Sister Kathleen Newell, B.V.M., (Anne Francine), 92, died Jan. 5, at Marian Hall, Dubuque, Iowa. In the Diocese of Brooklyn, Sister Kathleen ministered at Catholic Charities as coordinator of day care services, family support counselor and special assistant to the executive director; served in the Head Start Program; was diocesan Day Care Center consultant; and […]
Father Alexander G. Abugel, parochial vicar at Our Lady of Mount Carmel parish, Astoria, died in the rectory, Dec. 26, one day after his 59th birthday. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Dec. 30, 2012 at the church. Born in Brooklyn, Father Abugel attended St. Gabriel School, E. New York; Cathedral Prep, Brooklyn; Cathedral College, […]
Joseph B. Smith, director of music and choirmaster at St. James Cathedral-Basilica, Downtown Brooklyn, died Dec. 27, 2012 at the cathedral shortly after playing the organ for the noon Mass. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Jan. 2 by Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio at the cathedral. Msgr. John Strynkowski, rector, preached the homily. “Joe was […]
Angelina (Angie) Croce, 82, died in Assisi House, the retirement residence of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia, on Dec. 31, 2012. Born in Canarsie, her parents died when she was young, and her sister, Sister Fidelis Croce, a Franciscan Sister of Ringwood, N.J. (later merged with the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia), […]
Sister Martha Marie Healy, S.S.N.D., a teacher, school principal and pastoral minister for more than 50 years in the greater New York area, died of complications from a fall on Dec. 31, 2012 at Our Lady of Consolation Nursing and Rehabilitative Care Center, West Islip, L.I. She was 84 and had been a professed member […]
