Father Matthew C. Flood, S.J., a Jesuit for 67 years and a priest for 53 years, died March 7 at Murray-Weigel Hall, the Bronx. He was 85.

Born in the Bronx, he attended Xavier H.S., Manhattan, and entered the Society of Jesus at St. Andrew-on-Hudson in 1946.

He attended Woodstock College, Woodstock, Md., and Bellarmine College, Plattsburgh, N.Y.

As a scholastic, he taught German back at Xavier. He was ordained to the priesthood at the Fordham University Church on June 17, 1961 by Bishop Joseph Pernicone.

Father Flood began a long career of teaching at Fordham Prep in 1962, teaching theology, German and Spanish. For many summers, he traveled to St. Otto parish in Nuremburg, Germany, to assist there as well as improve his German.

He continued at Fordham Prep, 1999-2010, as well as serving there as assistant librarian and assistant alumni chaplain. In 2012, he was assigned to the Jesuit infirmary, Murray-Weigel Hall, also on the Fordham campus.

He is survived by his brother, Msgr. William Flood, who resides at Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament parish, Bayside.

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated March 11 at Murray-Weigel Hall. Burial was at the Jesuit Cemetery in Auriesville, N.Y.

Sister Patrick Maureen Diamond, C.S.J., a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Brentwood, L.I., for 72 years, died Feb. 2.

She entered the congregation in 1942 from St. Joseph’s parish, Prospect Heights.

She taught at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Sunset Park, 1944-50; Our Lady of Lourdes, Bushwick, 1950-56; St. Christopher, Baldwin, L.I., 1956-57; St. Mary, Mother of Jesus, Bensonhurst, 1957-59; St. Brendan, Midwood, 1959-68; St. Teresa of Avila, Prospect Heights, 1968-71; St. Mel, Flushing, 1971-74; Holy Cross, Flatbush, 1974-76; and Immaculate Heart of Mary, Kensington, 1976-84.

In 1984, she retired to St. Joseph Convent, Brentwood. She moved to Maria Regina Residence in 2009.

A Mass of Christian Burial took place in Maria Regina Chapel, Feb. 26. Interment followed in Calvary Cemetery, Brentwood.

Sister Alma Regina Murtha, G.N.S.H., a member of the Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart, Yardley, Pa., for 56 years, died after a long battle with cancer at St. Joseph Manor in Meadowbrook, Pa., on March 4. She was 76.

Born in New York, Mary Leddy Murtha attended Blessed Sacrament School, Jackson Heights, and graduated from Dominican Academy, Manhattan.

She then attended Good Counsel College, White Plains, N.Y., before entering the congregation in 1957.

A primary school teacher for 50 years, she taught in Lowell, Mass.; Buffalo, N.Y.; Eden, N.Y.; Bedford Stuyvesant; and Philadelphia between 1960 and 1974.

For the next 35 years, she taught at Blessed Sacrament School, Jackson Heights. From 2009 to 2011, she served as a teachers’ assistant and religion coordinator.

In 2011, she retired to the Grey Nun Motherhouse, Yardley.

She is survived by her brother, Joseph Murtha.

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated March 8 in the Grey Nuns’ Sacred Heart Chapel, Yardley. Burial followed in Resurrection Cemetery.