Obituaries
Sister Daniel O’Connor, an S.S.J. nun for 71 years, dies at 90
The former Margaret Mary O'Connor, a product of Transfiguration Parish and West Catholic Girls High School, was a Sister of St. Joseph serving in the Philadelphia Archdiocese and Baltimore, Camden and Trenton.
St. Joseph Sister Eileen Haggerty dies at 83
The former Sister James Naomi graduated from Little Flower High School and entered religious life in 1956, ministering in the Philadelphia Archdiocese plus Allentown and Camden.
Franciscan sister dies at 99, was longtime nurse, teacher
Sister Ann Joseph Hartman was a professed member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia for 78 years during which she was a nurse, supervisor and caregiver, as well as a teacher in several dioceses.
Longtime teacher Sister Patricia Krage, I.H.M., dies at 83
The Sister Servant of the Immaculate Heart of Mary taught at several Catholic elementary schools plus business education in Catholic high schools in the archdiocese.
Sister Kathleen Tobin dies at 102, was Franciscan for 78 years
Born in Ireland, she entered the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia in 1938 and served for more than a half-century in the schools and parishes of the Diocese of Trenton.
Sister Margaret Ann Maguire, S.S.J., dies at 69
The Cardinal Dougherty High School graduate entered the Sisters of St. Joseph in September 1968 and would go on to minister in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and the dioceses of Allentown and Trenton.
Sister Joan Gray, S.S.J., dies at 88
Sister Joan ministered in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and the dioceses of Allentown, Camden and Harrisburg during her 66 years of religious life.
Sister Loretta Dinda, 81, dies; was teacher, care minister
The I.H.M. sister originally from St. Barnabas Parish, Philadelphia taught middle grades in archdiocesan schools for 33 years and ministered to the sick at Philadelphia hospitals for 19 years.
Pastor of St. Francis de Sales, West Philadelphia dies at 75
Msgr. Joseph Anderlonis died Dec. 6, just 13 days short of his 50th anniversary as a priest. Bishop Michael Sheridan of Colorado Springs, who studied with Msgr. Anderlonis in Rome, will celebrate the funeral Mass Dec. 14.
Veteran Catholic journalist Jim Doyle dies at 98
The former executive director of the Catholic Press Association for 30 years, from 1958 to 1988, Doyle "a true model in how to live your faith," said one of his sons, while colleagues admired his "highest Catholic standards."