Msgr. Joseph P. Granata, a priest of the Rockville Centre Diocese, L.I., died Sept. 28.
Obituaries
Sister Marie Leonilde LaPointe, O.P.
Sister Marie Leonilde LaPointe, O.P., who recently celebrated her 75th year as a Sister of St. Dominic, Amityville, died Sept. 28. She was 93 years old.
Msgr. Dietz’s Priesthood Was Lesson to Seminarians
Msgr. Conrad R. Dietz, who spent most of his life teaching high school and college seminarians, died Sept. 27 at Northshore Manhasset Hospital. A senior priest, he had been living at the Bishop Mugavero Residence, Douglaston. He was 86 years old.
Sister Margaret Mary Feahilly, O.S.U.
Sister Margaret Mary Feahilly, O.S.U. (Miriam Feahilly) 90, died Sept. 4, at Maria Regina Residence, Brentwood, L.I.
Priest-Expert on Marian Apparitions Dies at 99
Msgr. Rene Laurentin, who spent a lifetime studying Marian apparitions, died Sept. 10 at the age of 99 in Evry, France.
Brother Labre Tallman, O.S.F.
Brother Labre Tallman, O.S.F., died Sept. 2, in St. Catherine’s Hospital, Smithtown, L.I.
Austin Charles Olivas
Austin Charles Olivas, brother of Deacon Pascual B. Olivas, Jr., of St. Bonaventure-St. Benedict the Moor parish, Jamaica, died Sept. 18.
Diane “DiDi” Halbran
Diane “DiDi” Halbran, 60, a retired NYPD officer, and former secretary to the president of Bishop Ford H.S., Park Slope, died of 9/11-related cancer on Sept. 6.
Sister Rosalie Kaseta, O.S.F.
Sister Rosalie Kaseta, O.S.F, a Sister of St. Francis of the Providence of God, Pittsburgh, Pa., for 75 years, died at Presbyterian Senior Care in Oakmont, Pa., on Sept. 11. She was 91.
Patrick Tracy
A Mass of Christian Burial for Patrick Tracy, 64, former director of campus ministry at St. Joseph’s College, Patchogue, L.I., was celebrated Sept. 20 at Holy Family Church, Hicksville, L.I. Born in Brooklyn, he attended Nazareth H.S., East Flatbush, and received his master’s in theology and divinity from St. John’s University. He recently retired to […]