Zambia-born Father Cletus Mooya, the parochial vicar of St. Michael Parish in Kailua-Kona, died at Queen’s Medical Center on Jan. 18. He had been a priest for the Diocese of Honolulu for seven years serving at several Oahu parishes. He was 40. His funeral vigil service was scheduled for Jan. 28 at the Co-Cathedral of […]
OBITUARY: Sister Mary Andrew Bomba, OSF
Inspired by a sermon about Father Damien, Texas-born Sister Mary Andrew Bomba joined the Sisters of St. Francis of Syracuse and fulfilled her wish to labor where the saint of Molokai labored. She died in Honolulu on Dec. 12 at the age of 92. She was in religious life 66 years. About her arrival in […]
Obituary: Maryknoll Sister Mary Elizabeth Driscoll, missioner for 70 years, taught in Hawaii
Maryknoll Sister Mary Elizabeth Driscoll, who taught in Catholic grade schools for a decade in post-war Hawaii, died peacefully on Oct. 2 at Phelps Memorial Hospital in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. She was 90. She had celebrated 70 years as a Maryknoll Sister on Sept. 7. Hawaii was Sister Mary Elizabeth’s first assignment as a Maryknoll […]
Obituary: Marianist Father Gerald Pleva served his last assignment at St. Anthony, Maui
Father Gerald (Jerry) Pleva, who served the last assignment of his long life as a Marianist brother and priest at St. Anthony Church on Maui, died Sept. 25, in San Antonio, Texas. He was 74 with 55 years of religious profession. Father Pleva was a teacher, counselor, campus minister and pastor. He held three master’s […]
Obituary: For 23 years, Jesuit Father Bernard Cassidy served Hawaii in hospital, hospice ministry
Jesuit Father Bernard F. Cassidy, who first worked in Hawaii as a young electrical engineer returning later as a priest to serve in hospital and hospice ministry for 23 years, died Sept. 15 in Regis Infirmary at the Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos, Calif. A Jesuit since 1954, he celebrated his 50th anniversary […]
Obituary: Maryknoll Father Robert Donnelly worked nearly 40 years in Oahu, Big Island parishes
Maryknoll Father Robert W. Donnelly of Brooklyn, N.Y., who spent nearly half his life as a parish priest on the Big Island and Oahu, died Sept. 8 at Phelps Memorial Hospital in New York. He was 81 years old and a Maryknoll missioner for 54 years. Father Donnelly was ordained on June 13, 1959. His […]
Obituary: Maryknoll Sister Blanche Thiel served in Hawaii for 20 years
Maryknoll Sister Blanche M. Thiel, a chaplain, pastoral worker and dietary researcher who served 20 years in Hawaii, died Aug. 29 at a Maryknoll Sisters care home in Ossining, N.Y. She was 87 and a religious sister for 64 years. Sister Blanche came to Hawaii in 1971, serving first as a dietician and cook at […]
Obituary: Capuchin Father Robert Maher, Oahu parish priest for 15 years, had role in Damien canonization
Capuchin Franciscan Father Robert Maher, who served as a parish priest on Oahu for 15 years and was one of the members of the diocesan tribunal that investigated the second miracle that led to the canonization of Father Damien, died Aug. 20 in Ridgewood, N.J. He was 66. Father Maher served in Hawaii from 1997-2012. […]
Obituary: Maryknoll Sister Catherine Margaret Carden helped develop diocese’s first CCD program
Sister Catherine Margaret Carden, one of a team of two Maryknoll sisters who in 1946 created the first Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (CCD) program for the Diocese of Honolulu, died July 25 in Maryknoll, N.Y. She was 93 years old and a Maryknoll Sister for 73 years. Hawaii was her first assignment as a Maryknoll […]
Obituary: Francis Matthew Popish, Christian Brother, taught at Damien High 22 years
Christian Brother Francis Matthew Popish, who taught at Damien Memorial School for more than two decades, died after a brief illness July 19 at Hale Nani Nursing Home where he had been living since January. He was 85 and had just celebrated his 70th anniversary of religious life. His funeral is Aug. 10 in the […]
