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Obituaries, Week of May 4, 2024
Sister Mary Louise Tweedy died April 11, 2024, at age 87. She grew up in Queens where she and her siblings attended St. Nicholas of Tolentine Elementary School. After graduating from The Mary Louis...
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Obituaries, Week of May 11, 2024
Deacon German Martinez, a retired deacon of the Diocese of Brooklyn who served at Transfiguration Church, Williamsburg, was born on Oct. 11, 1937, was ordained to the diaconate on June 14, 1975, and...
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Obituaries, Week of May 25, 2024
Msgr. Richard J. Ahlemeyer, a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn, was born on July 8, 1950, was ordained to the priesthood on March 12, 1977, and died on Sunday, May 12, 2024. He was 73 years old....
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Obituaries, Week of June 22, 2024
‘A True Shepherd of His People’ Father Ralph J. Caputo, a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn, was born on June 29, 1949, ordained to the priesthood on May 3, 1975, and died on Wednesday, June 12, 2024....
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Obituaries, Week of June 29 & July 6, 2024
Sister Joan Marie Thompson, IHM, (formerly known as Sister M. St. Vincent) of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, died on Sunday, June 16, 2024, at Our Lady of Peace Residence in...
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Obituaries, Week of July 20, 2024
Sister Mary Ann Ambrose, CSJ, a Sister of St. Joseph for 41 years, passed away on June 26, 2024, at the age of 64, having spent her last days at Stella Maris Convent, Rockaway, with loving family and...
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Obituaries, Week of July 27, 2024
Father Gerald Joseph Fitzsimmons, S.M.M., former pastor of St. Mary Gate of Heaven Parish, Ozone Park, died July 19, after a battle with ALS. He was 76. Born and raised in St. Teresa of Avila parish,...
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Obituaries, Week of August 3 & 10, 2024
Father Peter D. Gillen, a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn, was born on August 10, 1951, was ordained to the priesthood on February 11, 1978, and died on July 19. Father Gillen served the Diocese of...
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Obituaries, Week of August 17, 2024
Sister Elaine Nolan, S.C. (formerly Sister Mary Elaine), a Sister of Charity- Halifax for 69 years, died at Elizabeth Seton Residence, Wellesley, Massachusetts, on July 6 at the age of 87. Born in...
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Obituaries, Week of August 31, 2024
Sister Saint Raymond Quinn, CSJ, a Sister of St. Joseph for 67 years, died on July 30, 2024. She was 85 years old. Born Kathleen Quinn, she grew up in a devoted Irish family in which she first...
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Obituaries, Week of September 7, 2024
Sister Catherine Mary McGuigan, OP, was called home to God the day after her 98th birthday. Catherine was born in Brooklyn on Aug. 20, 1926. In 1940, she entered the Dominican Juniorate, and upon...
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Obituaries, Week of September 21, 2024
Sister Rosamond O’Keefe, CSJ, was preparing to celebrate her 75th Jubilee as a Sister of Saint Joseph of Brentwood at the end of September. However, the God to whom she dedicated her life on September...
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Obituaries, Week of October 5, 2024
Father Raymond F. Schmidt, a retired priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn, was born Sept. 24, 1934, in New York, ordained to the priesthood on May 28, 1960, and died on Tuesday, Sept. 24 — his 90th...
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Obituaries, Week of October 12, 2024
Margaret Grace Shepherd returned to the Lord Friday, September 20th, after a long life of faith. She was born in Brooklyn on January 20th, 1927 to Edward and Bernice Wiggins. In September of 1948, she...
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Obituaries, Week of October 19, 2024
Father George Cowan, a retired priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn, was born on July 29, 1938, was ordained to the priesthood on May 29, 1964 and died Sunday, October 6, 2024. Father Cowan served the...
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Obituaries, Week of October 26, 2024
Diocese Loses ‘A Good Friend’ Father George Cowan, a retired priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn, was born on July 29, 1938, was ordained to the priesthood on May 29, 1965, and died Sunday, Oct. 6....
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Sister Maureen Skelly, S.C.
Sister Maureen Skelly, S.C. (Sister Ann Marian), a Sister of Charity-Halifax for 70 years, died at Elizabeth Seton Residence in Wellesley, Massachusetts on Sept. 25 at 89. She is predeceased by her...
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Obituaries, Week of November 9, 2024
Sister Mildred Schubert, S.C. (Sister Robert Thomas), a Sister of Charity- Halifax for 61 years, died at Elizabeth Seton Residence, Wellesley, Massachusetts, on Aug. 28, at age 80. Mildred Ann...
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Obituaries, Week of November 16, 2024
Sister Evelyn Joyce Smith, CSJ, had just celebrated 70 years as a Sister of St. Joseph of Brentwood when God summoned her home on Oct. 5. Along with her sister Dotty and brother John, Evelyn grew up...
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Obituaries, Week of November 23 2024
Sister Francis Claire Gowen, a Sister of St. Joseph for 75 years, died on September 16, at St. Joseph Convent, Brentwood, at the age of 92. The daughter of Vincent and Claire Gowen, Sister Francis...
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