Sister Clare Marie O’Keeffe, O.P., formerly Sister Maureen Daniel, a member of the Sisters of St. Dominic, Amityville, for 60 years, died Dec. 5. She was 81. She entered the congregation from St. Matthias, Ridgewood, in 1952 and received the habit and her religious name the following year. She pronounced religious vows on Aug. 7, […]
Sister Sheila Hughes, O.P., a member of the Sisters of St. Dominic, Amityville, for 76 years, died Oct. 22. She was 94. Born as Margaret, she became acquainted with the Dominican Sisters at St. Luke School in Whitestone. She entered the congregation on Sept. 8, 1936. The following year, she received the habit and her […]
Father James Michael Kelly, C.M., died Oct. 29 at Ozanam Hall, Bayside. He was 86. Born in Brooklyn, he grew up in St. John the Baptist parish, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and attended Mary Immaculate Seminary in Northampton, Pa., and St. John’s University, Jamaica. In his 59 years as a Vincentian priest, Father Kelly served in many missions: […]
Sister Mary Anne Ricioppo, C.S.J., a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Brentwood, for 55 years, died in Transfiguration Convent, Williamsburg, Nov. 11. She entered the congregation on Sept. 12, 1958 from Our Lady of Good Counsel parish, Inwood, L.I. She earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Brentwood College. Formerly Sister Mary Marcellus, […]
Sister Mary Jane Raeihle, C.S.J., a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Brentwood, L.I., for 54 years, died on Nov. 14. She entered the congregation from SS. Cyril and Methodius, Deer Park, L.I., in 1959 and received the name Sister Mary Lucretia. By 1972, she earned her master’s degree in mathematics from Columbia University […]
Sister Frances Veronica Ivancich, C.S.J, a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Brentwood, for 62 years, died at Maria Regina Residence, Nov. 14. S he entered the congregation on Sept. 6, 1951 from Our Lady of Perpetual Help parish, Sunset Park. After earning her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business from St. John’s University […]
Deacon Eulogio S. Dupuy, who served at St. Gabriel’s parish, East Elmhurst, died Nov. 20 in Orlando, Fla., where he had retired. He was 79. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Nov. 24 at St. Gabriel’s Church. Auxiliary Bishop Paul Sanchez was the main celebrant. Special concelebrants included Fathers Gioacchino Basile, Robert F. Barclay, […]
Msgr. Sebastian Angles, a retired priest of the Brooklyn Diocese who had been living in retirement in Florida, died there Nov. 18, three days shy of his 95th birthday. A native of Spain, he was ordained a Vincentian priest in Madrid on July 16, 1944. He came to the diocese in 1959 and served as […]
Sister Sara Mooney, O.S.U., a member of the Ursuline Sisters of Tildonk, for 72 years, died Oct. 12 at Brookhaven Hospital, East Patchogue, L.I. A native of County Monaghan, Ireland, she professed her final vows in 1945. She attended Manhattan College and St. Rose College. Locally, she taught at Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, […]
Carol Elizabeth Brostek of Flushing died Nov. 9. A lifelong resident of Queens, she was a graduate of Queens College, Bishop McDonnell H.S., Crown Heights, and St. Mary’s Nativity School, Flushing. She served on reunion committees of her college and high school alumni organizations, and she was also a devoted and and active member of […]
