Sister Margaret Van Rossem, S.S.N.D., a native of Jamaica, Queens, died on June 4, at Lourdes Health Care Center in Wilton, Conn. She was 86.

Kenneth Lombardi — a former guidance counselor at Bishop Loughlin, M.H.S., Fort Greene, who was predeceased by his wife, Ellen, the late sister of Ed Wilkinson, The Tablet’s editor emeritus — died July 10.

Father Robert A Blauvelt, a former pastor of St. Stanislaus Kostka, Maspeth, who served in many parishes in the Diocese of Brooklyn, died on June 19. He was 89.

Sister Mary Donald Kelly, R.S.M., a member of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas Mid-Atlantic Community for 72 years, died on April 5 at Maria Regina Residence, Brentwood. She was 90.

Sister Helen Butler, O.P., a member of the Sisters of St. Dominic of Amityville for 70 years, died at her order’s motherhouse in Amityville on April 28. She was 88.

Sister Therese Ezelius, O.P., a longtime teacher and religious education director in Brooklyn and Long Island and a member of the Sisters of St. Dominic of Amityville for 57 years, died on May 17 at the sisters’ motherhouse in Amityville. She was 75.

Msgr. Matthew F. Foley, a retired priest of the diocese, died May 24 at Bishop Mugavero Residence, Douglaston. He was 88.