Father Daniel John Carboy, C.Ss.R., 73, died on Aug. 22, while receiving hospice care at St. John Neumann Residence at Stella Maris, Timonium, Md.
A memorial service will be held Saturday, Oct. 5, at 11 a.m. at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Sunset Park.
Born in Brooklyn, his early years were spent in Our Lady of Angels parish, Bay Ridge, and Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Sunset Park.
He entered the Redemptorist Order in 1961 and was ordained on June 19, 1966.
He attended St. Mary’s College, the Redemptorist Preparatory Seminary, in North East, Pa. When he finished his novitiate year in Ilchester, Md., he completed his studies at Mount St. Alphonsus, Esopus, N.Y., where he was ordained.
Following parish work in Maryland, he served as an Air Force chaplain in the Archdiocese for the Military Services for 20 years. In 1992, he retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
He returned to parish ministry until 2008 when ill health forced his retirement.
Burial was in the Redemptorist plot in the Edgewater Cemetery, Edgewater, Fla.
Sister Carmela Melucci, M.P.F., 84, died Sept. 11 at St. Joseph Hall, Morristown, N.J.
Born in Muro Lucano, Italy, she entered the Religious Teachers Filippini in 1948 and made her religious profession on Aug. 31, 1952.
After studies at St. John College, Clevelan, Ohio; Middlebury College, Vt.; and Trenton State College, Ewing, N.J.; she was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Perugia in Italy.
Locally, she taught at St. Bernadette, Bensonhurst, 1957-58.
Interment took place at Ave Maria Cemetery, Morristown.
Father Robert W. Donnelly, M.M., a native of Brooklyn, died Sept. 8 at Phelps Memorial Hospital. He was 81 and a Maryknoll priest for 54 years.
After ordination on June 13, 1959, he served in mission assignments in Japan and Hawaii until 1991.
He returned to the U.S. to do mission education and development work but later returned to Hawaii where he served from 1994 to 2004.
In 2007, he moved to the Maryknoll Mission Center, Ossining, N.Y., where he assisted local parishes.
He attended Our Lady of Angels School, Bay Ridge, and St. Michael’s H.S., Sunset Park, before entering the Maryknoll Seminary.
Burial was in the Maryknoll Society Cemetery, Ossining.
Sister Marianella Amerson, O.P., a Sister of St. Dominic, Amityville, L.I., for 68 years, died Aug. 31.
Born in Brooklyn and baptized Doris, she moved to Queens in her youth. She entered the congregation from Our Lady of Lourdes parish, Queens Village, in 1945. One year later, she received the habit and her religious name, Sister Marianella.
She ministered to the Dominican Sisters as a cook and domestic in the following convents: St. Agnes, Rockville Centre, L.I., 1947-48; St. Martin, Amityville, 1948-54; American Martyrs, Bayside, 1954-56; St. Frances de Chantal, Borough Park, 1956-1958; St. Joseph, Sullivan County, L.I., 1958-1961; Incarnation, Queens Village, 1961-63; Immaculate Conception Seminary, Huntington, L.I., 1963-68; St. Hugh, Huntington Station, L.I., 1968-70; and St. Rose, Melville, L.I., 1970-71.
In 1971, she assumed the position of driver at Queen of the Rosary Motherhouse, Amityville. Many times she was called upon to take her fellow Dominican Sisters to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center for treatments.
A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated in St. Albert Chapel, Amityville. Interment in the Sisters’ Cemetery followed.
