Tributes from business leaders and politicians alike described Jennifer Riordan – the 43-year-old passenger who died April 17 from injuries suffered on Southwest Flight 1380 when its engine exploded after taking off from LaGuardia Airport in Queens – as a devoted mother, community leader, mentor and volunteer.
Sister Mary Terence Mullin, R.S.M., 96, a member of the Brooklyn Sisters of Mercy for 78 years, died March 30, at Ozanam Hall Nursing Home in Bayside.
Msgr. Timothy P. Stein, an editor in the Catholic press for 29 years and a priest who served in parish ministry for more than three decades, died April 20 after a recent illness.
Pierina Martinez, wife of retired Deacon Manuel Martinez, died April 17 at her residence.
Sister Mary Serafine Della Croce, S.S.N.D., a School Sister of Notre Dame for 68 years, died Feb. 2 in Norwalk Hospital, Connecticut. She was 85.
Jose B. Lee, a former parishioner at St. Ann’s, DUMBO, and a 1965 graduate of Cathedral Prep, Brooklyn, died April 6 in Georgia.
Sister Maria Voorneveld, I.H.M., (formerly known as Sister M. Theodore) of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary died March 27 at Our Lady of Peace Residence, Scranton, Pa. She was 95.
Friends and fans called him a “gentle giant,” a faithful “prayer warrior” and a Clark Kent whose superman power was helping people grow in holiness and faith.
Sister Roseann McHale, O.P., a Sister of St. Dominic, Amityville, for 60 years, died March 28. She was 79.
Frances T. Beech, the mother-in-law of Deacon James F. Ruoff of Blessed Trinity parish, Breezy Point, died March 29.
