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Obituary: Maryknoll Sister Blanche Thiel served in Hawaii for 20 years

09/13/2013 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

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 […]

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Obituary: Capuchin Father Robert Maher, Oahu parish priest for 15 years, had role in Damien canonization

08/30/2013 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

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. […]

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Obituary: Maryknoll Sister Catherine Margaret Carden helped develop diocese’s first CCD program

08/16/2013 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

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 […]

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Obituary: Francis Matthew Popish, Christian Brother, taught at Damien High 22 years

08/02/2013 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

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 […]

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Obituary: Sacred Hearts Sister Lucia Iwata served her community creatively for 6 decades

07/19/2013 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

Hawaii-born Sacred Hearts Sister Lucia Iwata, who served her calling and her community in a variety of ways, from cook and housekeeper, to religion teacher and eucharistic minister, to choir member and rosary maker, died unexpectedly at Straub Medical Center on June 30. She was 84 and in religious life for 63 years. Sister Regina […]

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Obituary: Maryknoll Sister Antonetta Wilgenbusch worked 30 years on Oahu

07/19/2013 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

Maryknoll Sister Antonetta Wilgenbusch, teacher to the deaf, beloved domestic and pastoral worker in Hawaii for 30 years and a teacher in Indiana, died on June 29, at Maryknoll, N.Y. She was 101 years old and had been a Maryknoll Sister for 78 years. Hawaii was Sister Antonetta’s first mission assignment. She arrived in 1940, […]

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Obituary: Carondelet Sister Julia Marie Acain, of Maui, beloved teacher for 50 years

05/10/2013 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

Sister Julia Marie Acain, a Maui girl who, with her sister Catherine, joined the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet 60 years ago and enjoyed a long fruitful career in education, died on April 20 in Makawao, Maui. She was 79. Sister Julia Marie was a teacher in California, on Oahu and Maui, and was […]

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Obituary: Marianist Father Joseph Lackner of Chaminade was global scholar

05/10/2013 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

Marianist Father Joseph Lackner of the Center Marianist Hale Malia Community at Chaminade University, died April 28 in Seoul, South Korea, while en route back to the U.S. from a Marianist teaching assignment in Bangalore, India. He was 71 and a Marianist for 52 years. He had been on the Chaminade faculty since 2011. In […]

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Obituary: Sister Richard Marie Toal followed 40 years in saint’s footsteps

02/15/2013 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

A Franciscan nun who lived out her youthful goal to follow in the footsteps of Mother Marianne Cope by serving as a nurse in Kalaupapa for 40 years died in Honolulu Feb. 3. She was 96. Sister Richard Marie Toal was remembered at a Feb. 8 funeral Mass at St. Francis Convent chapel in Manoa. […]

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